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90-536: The Naked Brothers Band may refer to: The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie , a 2005 film The Naked Brothers Band: Music from the Movie , the soundtrack The Naked Brothers Band (TV series) , 2007-09, a spin-off of the film The Naked Brothers Band (album) , 2007 soundtrack The Naked Brothers Band (video game) , 2008 See also [ edit ] Nat and Alex Wolff , music group who wrote and performed

180-423: A Bar Mitzvah ; and Mr. Wolff's girl friend rejects him after meeting his twin brother, Miles, who is a successful jazz pianist. In addition, the band starts prepping for their tour with several band rehearsals. Prior to leaving on their tour bus, the band members are conflicted with personal issues: Mr. Wolff is still coping from his break up with Betty, David is upset about leaving his dog, E.T. behind, and Rosalina

270-588: A Criterion CAV laserdisc and a Voyager CLV laserdisc in 1987, each of which had three pressings. The first pressings had no UPC on the gatefold covers while the other two had the UPC either as a sticker or printed directly on the jacket. The film's transfer on the CAV laserdiscs was done correctly so that no blending of frames occurs and thus movements are not blurry. The supplemental section, which, with few exceptions, has never been available on any other home video release, contains

360-518: A Girl I Know". (In order of appearance): The series often features celebrities making cameo appearances, most of whom play themselves. Albie Hecht foreshadowed the success of the series after watching the film at the Hamptons International Film Festival. In an article, he told New York Times reporter Felicia R. Lee: "They're just real: real brothers, real friends; it's all the stuff kids do when they're hanging out on

450-491: A clutter of mechanical gimmicks and madcap chases ... Funny? Exciting? Different? Well, there's nothing in "Help!" to compare with that wild ballet of the Beatles racing across a playground in "A Hard Day's Night", nothing as wistful as the ramble of Ringo around London all alone ... The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way. They just become awfully redundant and – dare I say it? – dull." In

540-471: A film crew of around 60 people. Locals served as ski stunt doubles for the Beatles, who stayed at the hotel "Edelweiss". Most of the crew were based in the hotel Marieta, where one night the Beatles gave an impromptu concert on the occasion of a director's assistant's birthday. This was the only time they ever performed in Austria. The Beatles did not particularly enjoy filming Help! , nor were they pleased with

630-590: A key element in future songs such as " Norwegian Wood ". Filming finished on 14 April at Ailsa Avenue in Twickenham . The ski scenes were shot at Obertauern , a small village in Austria. One reason this location was chosen was that the stars of the film were less likely to be recognised there than at one of the larger resorts with many British tourists. The Beatles were in Obertauern for about two weeks in March 1965 along with

720-529: A limited edition volume of Peto's photographs focusing on the Beatles images was produced in 2006 with deluxe editions of the book signed by Richard Lester . An exhibition of the photographs to mark the book's launch was held at Hoopers Gallery, Clerkenwell, in January 2006. Another exhibition of the photographs was held at the University of Dundee in 2007 as part of the university's 40th anniversary celebrations, with

810-528: A lot of time together between A Hard Day's Night and Help! , and partly because we were smoking marijuana for breakfast during that period. Nobody could communicate with us, it was all glazed eyes and giggling all the time. In our own world. It's like doing nothing most of the time, but still having to rise at 7 am, so we became bored. A contributing factor was exhaustion attributable to their busy schedule of writing, recording and touring. Afterwards they were hesitant to begin another film project, and Help!

900-425: A retrospective review, Leslie Halliwell describes the film as an "[e]xhausting attempt to outdo A Hard Day's Night in lunatic frenzy, which goes to show that some talents work best on low budgets. The humour is a frantic cross between Hellzapoppin' , The Goons , Goofy , Mr. Magoo and the shade of Monty Python to come. It looks good but becomes too tiresome to entertain." Help!' s pop art style influenced

990-483: A skatepark. When the boys' father arrives back from his overnight vacation, he starts dating an estranged lady named Betty, who Cooper and Jesse initially hired to clean the mess in the Wolff family's apartment without much success. In addition to a " Battle of The Bands " between The Naked Brothers Band and The LA Surfers (the latter featuring 16-year-old singer Bobby Love, a manipulative con artist who tries to hit on Rosalina),

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1080-461: A video; Nat, who did not want to make out in the scene due to his crush Rosalina watching, mistakenly smooches her. He then explains to his mother that he was confused as to what the instructions were. The scene being filmed was that of the first season's ninth episode " First Kiss (On the Lips, That is) ", which was directed by Melanie Mayron. In another instance, during production for the fourth episode of

1170-409: Is 14, Qaasim is 13, and Thomas, David, and Cooper are 12. Guest stars for the season include syndicated cartoonist Jules Feiffer , musician Joel Madden , skateboarder Tony Hawk , George Lopez , Matt Pinfield , and musician Phil Collins . During the first half of the season, Daniel Raymont portrays Wing with Teala Dunn and Emily Richardson returning as Juanita and Patty Scoggins, respectively. When

1260-569: Is [Nat] there? We just love him.' The only thing that's comforting is, they're pretty harmless at that age." "Former Thirtysomething star Polly Draper makes a convincing argument that her offspring actually do have talent with the whimsical new series The Naked Brothers Band ." Help! (film) Help! is a 1965 British musical comedy - adventure film directed by Richard Lester , starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern , Eleanor Bron , Victor Spinetti , John Bluthal , Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill . The second film starring

1350-543: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Naked Brothers Band (TV series) The series is a spin-off of Polly Draper's film of the same name that was picked up by the network, premiering in January 2007. Draper, known for her starring role in Thirtysomething , is the executive producer; she serves as showrunner , and often writer and director. Albie Hecht , former president of Nickelodeon and Spike TV ,

1440-441: Is not wearing the sacrificial ring. Instead, Ringo Starr , drummer of the Beatles, has the ring, sent to him by the intended victim, who is a fan of the band. Determined to retrieve the ring and sacrifice the girl, the chief priest, Clang, several cult members, and high priestess Ahme leave for London. After failed attempts to steal the ring without Ringo noticing, they confront him in an Indian restaurant. Ringo learns that he will be

1530-423: Is that the group is recording their first studio album as well as starring in several music videos to promote it. In the first episode "VMAs", Alex is horrified by his horoscope Jesse reads to him, and the band's music video for their song "Banana Smoothie" wins an MTV Video Music Award at the end. In later episodes, Nat's initial attempts at stand-up comedy fails before receiving advice from George Lopez. Throughout

1620-484: Is the other executive producer, under his Worldwide Biggies tag. Michael Wolff , who led the band on The Arsenio Hall Show , serves as co-executive producer and music supervisor, with Draper's brother Tim as consulting producer. When the show debuted on the channel, it aired two episodes, garnering 3.7 million viewers. Viacom announced, the "series delivered Nickelodeon's highest-rated premiere in seven years" and it became favorable for children aged 6–11. Following

1710-494: Is the stubborn director; he is later overthrown and replaced by Cooper, the producer of the movie. Christophe appears again in "The Premiere" when he steals the movie's metal film cassette. On the other hand, Rosalina temporarily leaves the band to travel on a worldwide cruise. During her trip, the band members read the newspaper and the front cover depicts Rosalina kissing a French man. When Rosalina returns to visit, she and Nat have an internal dispute and Rosalina subsequently quits

1800-407: Is worried about the possibility of not saying "good bye" to her father. Nonetheless, all of their concerns work themselves out: George Lopez advises Mr. Wolff to continue his passion for playing the accordion despite his break up, Tuffy ends up allowing David to bring his dog, and Rosalina's father makes it to the bus stop before the bus leaves. Following several concert performances (including one at

1890-522: The Batman TV series and the direction of the contemporary advertising industry. Although Lester's depiction of Indian culture was largely negative and stereotypical , the film's focus on Kali and other Hindu themes anticipated the counterculture 's fascination with Indian philosophy and music. In his book 1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born , cultural commentator Christopher Bray views Help! as "one of

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1980-480: The ProRes 422 codec , so we're cutting in a broadcast-quality format that we'll later output without having to recapture all the footage." According to Cobb, it is very difficult to coordinate the television's screen-framing: There are many issues to consider. If I were able to cut it 16:9, I would be able to keep an eye on the outside edges of the frame. Since I only cut it in 4:3, I don't get to see what's going on in

2070-727: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio , as well as a state county fair), the TV movie "Polar Bears" depicts the ending of the band's tour in New Orleans, Louisiana , where they — along with their babysitter, Jesse — reunite with the siblings' father and old family friends of the Wolffs' who are victims of Hurricane Katrina . On the ride down there, Jesse inadvertently has Alex watch An Inconvenient Truth and, after viewing it, he becomes very concerned about

2160-573: The West End of London on 29 July 1965 in the presence of Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon and the Earl of Snowdon . While not reviewed at the time with the same high level of admiration as their first film, Help! is now credited with influencing the development of music videos . An eastern cult (a parody of the Thuggee cult) is about to sacrifice a woman to their goddess , Kali . They notice that she

2250-403: The cinematographer —and his wife, Caron Rudner, own the filming studio, Kidzhouse Entertainment, which is another distributor for the show. Polly Draper and Melanie Mayron , both known for co-starring in Thirtysomething , directed the first season. During the second season, Jonathan Judge was added as a third director. The last episode Mayron directed for that season, and thus for

2340-449: The " Ode to Joy " from Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony and, during the end credits and with the Beatles' own comic vocalisations, Rossini 's Barber of Seville overture, as well as orchestral arrangements of Beatles songs, among them " A Hard Day's Night " and " She's a Woman ." The original title for the film – only changed to Help! very near to its release – was Eight Arms to Hold You . As such, Capitol Records ' original pressings of

2430-687: The " Ticket to Ride " single have the subheading: From the United Artists release "Eight Arms to Hold You." Help! was shot in London, Salisbury Plain , the Austrian Alps , New Providence Island and Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and Twickenham Film Studios . Shooting commenced in the Bahamas on 23 February 1965. Starr commented in The Beatles Anthology that they were in the Bahamas to film

2520-418: The 16:9 frame . Nat and Alex sing, compose, and perform all of the show's music, with Nat's song "If That's Not Love" serving as the theme song. Their father contributes the underscore and supervises the music; he also produces it with Michael A. Levine . The series' music editor, John Davis coordinates the songs' musical numbers , and Amy Cervini and Russ Spiegel are the music instructors. The pilot

2610-678: The Bands " and one additional episode titled "Alien Clones" broadcast that following October. The first season features Nat and his younger brother Alex, who are 11 and 8 years old, respectively. David, Thomas, and Cooper are also 11. Qaasim is 12 and Rosalina is 13. Daniel Raymont plays the role of the music video director, and Tuffy Questall portrays Tuffy, the driver of the band's psychedelic bus. The first season also has guest appearances by TV personality Ryan Seacrest , radio host Matt Pinfield , rap artist Snoop Dogg , comedian George Lopez , and actor and musician Keli Price . The first season's premise

2700-509: The Bands ". By the third season, Mittenthal emerged as a senior writer, earning the title of co-executive producer. Albie Hecht is the other executive producer; his production company Worldwide Biggies distributes the series, in association with Nickelodeon Television . Michael Wolff, a jazz musician often noted for leading the band on The Arsenio Hall Show , also serves as co-executive producer, with Tim Draper as consulting producer. Production facilities producers Ken H. Keller—also

2790-488: The Beatles and never allowing the film to take itself too seriously. His style would later be co-opted by Bob Rafelson for the Monkees ' television series in the '60s and has continued to influence rock musicals like 1998's Spice World . On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critics consensus reads: " Help! finds

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2880-476: The Beatles following Lester's A Hard Day's Night , Help! sees the group struggle to protect Ringo Starr from a sinister eastern cult and a pair of mad scientists, all of whom are obsessed with obtaining a sacrificial ring sent to him by a fan. The soundtrack was released as the band's fifth studio album under the same name . Help! had its Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in

2970-687: The Beatles' rescue and tries to shrink Ringo's finger to get the ring off with a temporary shrinking solution, but the cult and the scientists ambush the band's home, causing Ahme to drop the syringe in Paul, temporarily shrinking him instead. Once Paul returns to his normal size, the band runs to the Austrian Alps and narrowly escapes a trap there, thanks to Ahme, who is secretly aiding them. To stay safe, they ask for protection from Scotland Yard. They are hidden in Buckingham Palace, narrowly avoiding capture by

3060-465: The Beatles' style of humour was taken from the Goon Show . Many of the film's concepts are derived from Goon Show s, such as the presence of wild animals, music, fourth wall -breaking jokes and abstractions such as the closing statement that concludes the film. Among the original working titles for the film were Beatles Phase II and Beatles Two , before Starr suggested Eight Arms to Hold You , which

3150-465: The City , the show had a "larger cartoon element". However, Cobb considered the editing to be a challenge because he felt that a certain degree of unscripted "magic on set" existed that required more work. Because most of the children on the series are not professional actors—in addition to the music that was to be added—the editing process created a situation that was somewhat "messy". Nonetheless, Cobb believed

3240-559: The Fab Four displaying their infectious charm and humor in an enjoyably madcap adventure." On Metacritic , it has a weighted average score of 58 out of 100, based on eight critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". A novelisation entitled The Beatles in Help! was written by Al Hine and published by Dell in 1965. A sequence featuring Frankie Howerd and Wendy Richard was filmed but left out of final editing owing to its length. However,

3330-487: The TV series music Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Naked Brothers Band . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Naked_Brothers_Band&oldid=1117566844 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

3420-604: The UK catalogue was made the official and only catalogue of Beatles albums, omit it. The end credits are played over Rossini's "The Barber of Seville". Upon its release, reviews for Help! were mixed. The Daily Express ' s reviewer found Lester's direction "a joy to watch" and called the Beatles "the closest thing to the Marx Brothers since the Marx Brothers". By contrast, the Daily Mirror , Britain's best-selling newspaper at

3510-574: The band ends up adding Rosalina and Cole Hawkins , reuniting as The Naked Brothers Band. Famous celebrities either acknowledge they are huge fans of the band or appear with other supporting roles; in real life, they have either worked or are friends with the Draper-Wolff family. These special guests are Cindy Blackman , Ann Curry , Arsenio Hall , Ricki Lake , Cyndi Lauper , Julianne Moore , Brent Popolizio, Tony Shalhoub , Lauper's husband David Thornton , Uma Thurman , jazz singer Nancy Wilson , and

3600-403: The band goes on tour, the tour driver Tuffy (Tuffy Questall) takes on more of a lead recurring role. The second season begins with a school masquerade party and prom. In later episodes, Nat, Alex, and Cooper have dates at a local movie theater; during a live talk show, the siblings, alongside Joel Madden and a girl, who is a critical news reporter, compose a song together at the piano; Cooper has

3690-483: The band. Because of this, the group must find a new bass player. Cooper calls for a "Naked Idol" contest and the outfit selects Kristina Reyes as their new bassist. However, Nat later makes up with Rosalina and she rejoins the band while retaining Kristina as well. "The Premiere" TV movie ends with them watching the Magical Mystery Girl Movie in the theaters as well as the band performing Nat's new song "Just

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3780-422: The brothers were very young: they came out of the bathtub and said, "We're the naked brothers band!" Although Nat revised the band's title to The Silver Boulders in preschool, Polly Draper revived it as she felt it would be more suitable for the show. Nat's music, which he has been composing at the piano from the time he was 5, emboldens the scripts Draper writes for many of the episodes. She also acknowledges how

3870-446: The casting, manages the writers' room, edits scripts, and conveys storyline ideas for each episode. In addition to Draper serving as head writer , the other writers for the series have previously scripted other TV shows for Nickelodeon. They include Magda Liolis , Michael Rubiner and Bob Mittenthal, and Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi . McRobb and Viscardi only penned the script for the first season's two-part episode TV movie " Battle of

3960-401: The central surrealist texts" of the 1960s, and the film that best captures the "magical weirdness" of London before the commercialisation that accompanied its international recognition as the world's " Swinging City ". Ronnie D. Lankford of AllMovie describes Help! as a "forerunner to music videos", adding: "Lester seemed to find the right tone for Help! , creating an enjoyable portrait of

4050-520: The combination of factors created a "magic" of its own "and it's what makes this show really shine". When an episode completed filming, Cobb edited on the Final Cut Pro application, which normally took four days to complete. Bertini—who spent the same amount of time editing—then converted unnecessary script and added sound effects . Cobb says, "The 16:9 SD workflow was the plan for the 2008 season, but that has changed. We're working in 4:3 SD with

4140-490: The director of the new Magical Mystery Girl Movie . The new season depicts the band shooting their initial theatrical film called the Magical Mystery Girl Movie . Nat stars as Daniel, Rosalina as herself, Miranda Cosgrove as Daniel's girl friend, Alex as Oliver, Juanita as the girl in Oliver's new music video, with Mr. Wolff and Jesse playing themselves and Principle Schmoke and Tuffy portraying sumo wrestlers in diapers. Christophe

4230-561: The end product. In 1970, John Lennon said they felt like extras in their own film: The film was out of our control. With A Hard Day's Night , we had a lot of input, and it was semi-realistic. But with Help! , Dick Lester didn't tell us what it was all about. Ten years later Lennon was more charitable: I realize, looking back, how advanced it was. It was a precursor to the Batman "Pow! Wow!" on TV – that kind of stuff. But [Lester] never explained it to us. Partly, maybe, because we hadn't spent

4320-522: The end was included so as to satisfy the terms of the contract requiring their personal appearances in three films. The Beatles' next film Let It Be (1970) was not connected to the original three-picture deal. The Beatles said the film was inspired by the classic Marx Brothers film Duck Soup ; it was also directly satirical of the James Bond series of films. At the time of the original release of Help! , its distributor, United Artists , also held

4410-535: The ensemble cast of Thirtysomething (particularly, Timothy Busfield , Draper, Mel Harris , Peter Horton , Melanie Mayron , Ken Olin , and Patricia Wettig ). It premiered as a TV movie special on January 27, 2007. The first season aired 13 episodes and 1 TV special. It debuted in February 2007 and originally concluded with the tenth episode, "The Song", in June; however, a two-part episode, television movie " Battle of

4500-423: The entire frame. Therefore, should an HD version be required, potentially a lot of adjustments will have to be made in the final edit. Occasionally, we've had to look at the 16:9 footage to reposition a couple of shots and I've seen light stands and such that will have to be removed somehow in a 16:9 version of the show. However, everything has been shot in 16:9 HD, so we will never have to stretch any images to fill

4590-790: The exhibition then moving to the National Conservation Centre, Liverpool . In 2011, the photographs were exhibited in Dundee, as part of the Scottish Beatles Weekend, and at the Proud Gallery in Camden . The songs played during the film are: The seven main songs formed the first side of the British release of the Help! album. The second side consisted of other new Beatles songs recorded at

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4680-486: The family that would interfere with the siblings' schooling. "None of this was calculated at all on any of our parts. What originally happened was that Nat and Alex had a band, and the idea evolved based on that. Spinal Tap meets The Little Rascals was my concept...I (also) wanted it to be very Beatle-ish, have that Help! or A Hard Day's Night kind of feeling." —Polly Draper, series creator and showrunner The series' title derived from an incident when

4770-410: The family to start working on the series, Draper and Wolff were initially reluctant to allow their children into the industry. The family later decided to proceed, however, under certain conditions, which Nickelodeon approved. "Having our life turned into a mockumentary wasn't as big a deal as some would think. We took all the friendships, Alex's one liners, and my music and put it into a storyline; it

4860-421: The family's apartment. Draper's brother Tim , a venture capitalist, invested in the shoot, and she and her husband Michael Wolff 's famous celebrity friends are featured making cameo appearances. "When Nickelodeon first asked us about doing a series, we said, 'How about a cartoon, so the kids can stay normal?' They said, 'No, we love your kids.' " —Polly Draper In late 2005, Draper and Wolff entered

4950-608: The film at the Hamptons International Film Festival , where it received high applause from the audience. Albie Hecht , former president of film and television entertainment for Nickelodeon , attended the screening. He sold the film to Nickelodeon and proposed developing a television series based on it. The network was eager to buy the film after Hecht and his agent conducted market research by designing an animated video of Nat's song "Crazy Car" that revealed substantial success with children, but when urging

5040-612: The film would be retitled. In an interview, Starr said "We wanted to use Stop the World, We Want to Get On , but I believe that Brando 's doing that," though it may have been said in sarcasm. Producer Walter Shenson also suggested the title The Day the Clowns Collapsed . Help! was settled on as the film's title later in April, after neither Lennon nor McCartney were able to compose a good title song from its previous name. Lennon then wrote

5130-598: The film. This came in standard 2xDVD packaging and 2xDVD deluxe edition box set on 30 October 2007 in the UK and 6 November 2007 in America. This latest release contains new featurettes, three trailers (one of which is in Spanish), and the aforementioned radio ads carried over from the Criterion LaserDisc issue. The film was released on Blu-ray format in June 2013 by Universal Music , now the owners of EMI/Capitol Records, using

5220-527: The following: In June 2007, a version of Help! , sub-titled in Korean, became available on Amazon.com. However, by July 2007, all home video versions of the film were pulled from the market because of rights issues involving Apple Corps – now the full rights holders to the film. The rights issues were eventually resolved and Apple Corps/EMI/Capitol released a new double DVD version with a fully restored image and newly remixed in 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround sound of

5310-448: The hot weather scenes, and therefore had to wear light clothing even though it was winter and the weather at the time was actually cool. Tony Bramwell, the assistant to Beatles manager Brian Epstein, stated in his book A Magical Mystery Tour that Epstein chose the Bahamas for tax reasons. According to The Beatles Anthology , during the restaurant sequence filmed in early April, Harrison began to discover Indian -style music, which would be

5400-436: The next sacrifice if he does not give up the ring. However, the ring is stuck on his finger and he cannot take it off. The Beatles are chased around London by members of the cult. After a jeweller fails to cut the ring off, the band resorts to the bumbling efforts of Professor Foot, a mad scientist and his assistant Algernon; when his equipment has no effect on the ring, Foot decides that he must somehow acquire it. Ahme comes to

5490-502: The original characters—allowed her to contemplate her boys' fictional birth mother as deceased; her name is never revealed. However, in the show, the boys' father is infatuated with an estranged lady named Betty. Moreover, although portraying fictional characters, the ensemble cast —including Qaasim Middleton , as well as real-life friends David Levi , Joshua Kaye, Thomas Batuello , and Cooper Pillot—keep their full names on-screen. Nonetheless, Allie DiMeco plays Rosalina;

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5580-421: The picture editor for the series; he was also the assistant editor for Sex and the City . Cobb worked with supervising sound editor Louis Bertini, who had been the editor for Sex and The City . Of the editing process, Bertini explains that editing the show was not much different from editing Sex and the City ; they brought a similar "approach and constriction to the audio elements", although unlike Sex in

5670-485: The playground. The idea that you're watching a documentary is so much fun. Then you put them into that fantasy of being a world-famous rock band, and that's the sauce that makes it work." Moreover, before the show's debut, "a fan recognized Nat and Alex in a Florida hotel. She sent them a note: 'Are you the Naked Brothers?' 'They were so excited,' Polly Draper recalled. 'The show hasn't even aired yet and now walking down

5760-423: The polar bears potentially becoming extinct due to global warming . During their visit, Mr. Wolff's friend's older daughter, as well as Nat, Qaasim, and Rosalina encounter misinterpretations over their romantic interests before they are resolved, and the band ends up donating the money raised from their performance at an elaborate-styled ballroom to a charity supporting climate change . The third season began with

5850-476: The rights to the Bond series. The humour of the film is strongly influenced by the abstract humour of The Goon Show , in which the director had personal and direct experience in the conversion of the radio format to television, and personal working experience with Peter Sellers in particular. Beatles recording producer George Martin had also produced records for the Goon Show team. McCartney has always said that

5940-556: The ring. Ahme rescues Ringo by giving the scientists the shrinking solution in exchange. The two of them dive into the ocean to escape, but Ringo cannot swim, and they are both captured by Clang and his followers. In the end, when Ringo is about to be sacrificed on the beach, the ring suddenly comes off. He puts the ring on Clang's finger, who is then chased by his own cult as the song "Help!" plays. According to interviews conducted with Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr for The Beatles Anthology , director Richard Lester

6030-528: The same time or shortly afterwards. The US album, released by Capitol Records, includes the seven film tracks along with instrumental soundtrack songs orchestrated by Ken Thorne. In addition, the US Help! opens with a hidden track stylised as a satirical "James Bond Theme" before the title track. Early pressings of the US version of the album 1962–1966 include this hidden track banded as "Help!", and later pressings, when

6120-451: The school principal. Jesse's sister and cousin have been added as recurring stars during the second season. They play Jesse's sisters named Tessy and Bessy who appear as the dancing girls in Alex's new music video. In addition, Qaasim's real-life mother, the actress and singer-songwriter Toni Seawright , as well as his younger brother Kahlil (also an actor and musician) appear as themselves during

6210-457: The scientists. Later at a pub, Clang sets a trap for Ringo involving a trap door and a tiger. Then they flee to the Bahamas, followed by the police officers, the scientists, and the cult members. After Ringo is nearly captured, the police have the other Beatles pose as him in order to ensnare the cult members. Despite their best efforts, however, the scientists catch Ringo and hide him aboard a boat where Foot intends to cut off Ringo's finger to get

6300-406: The season ends with Nat and his band performing at a charity event they put together for Juanita and her foster family. During the second season, 13 episodes and 2 TV specials aired, beginning with the two-part episode, TV movie "Sidekicks" in January 2008 before ending that following June with the three-part episode, TV movie " Polar Bears ". In the second season, Nat is 12 and Alex is 9. Rosalina

6390-430: The season, Nat does not like when David and Thomas ridicule his affection for Rosalina. Although neither admits their feelings for each other, it becomes quite obvious that Nat and Rosalina like each other. As time goes on, Rosalina kisses Nat on the lips in his dressing room. Moreover, Alex becomes mad and runs away when Jesse dates The Timmerman Brothers. Along the way, Alex becomes friends with an orphan named Juanita at

6480-468: The second season, as the boys play restlessly on a purple sofa, their mother (who was not directing the episode) admonishes them over the loudspeaker by saying, "Both of you, try to smile more." According to New York Times author Felicia R. Lee, the siblings act "chatty, guileless, fun-loving", much as they do in their genuine lives. She also notes that, of the show's characters, "no one over 18 has much sense." Draper's role as creator —the developer of

6570-448: The second season, while Seawright reprises her role in the third season. Thomas' real-life younger brother, John, also reoccurs as himself during the second season. During a family interview in January 2008 by New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg, Nat notes the French bulldog E.T., who plays David Levi's dog in the show, belongs to the Draper-Wolff family in real life. Craig Cobb is

6660-461: The sequence was left in the film novelisation. Like A Hard Day's Night , Help! was originally distributed theatrically by United Artists – the company handled distribution from 1965 to the end of 1980. In January 1981, rights to the film reverted from UA to producer Walter Shenson, and the film was withdrawn from circulation. Help! was released several times in different video formats by MPI Home Video and The Criterion Collection . A version

6750-415: The series differs from other children's shows in terms of not using a laugh track. "At first, we were intrigued by the idea, but we weren't sure that kids would understand the vague tongue-and-cheek of it. Then a bunch of us took [the film] home to our own children and they loved it." —Tom Aschiem, executive vice president and general manager for Nickelodeon Draper explains the events that precede

6840-403: The series, featured her as an estranged fan on the radio, providing the voice over. By the third season, Draper and Judge directed every other TV movie, with Mark Salisbury directing the initial animated special, and Rosario Roveto, Jr. directing the concluding episode. Draper managed to also keep an eye on her two boys. For example, the cast was filming an episode that featured the band recording

6930-484: The show's premiere, the band's song "Crazy Car" was placed on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and the first and second season soundtrack albums were on the top 200 Billboard charts. The Naked Brothers Band was nominated for several awards, earning a Broadcast Music, Inc. Award and one Writers Guild of America Award . The series concluded after three seasons because the network began placing high shooting demands on

7020-428: The show: "Nat decided he wanted to film his own sitcom, so we did a film called Don't Eat Off My Plate . I pretended to interview his friends and do a documentary." Following the home video, Draper had the idea of making a mockumentary film about the band; she decided to introduce them as music icons like the Beatles. Filmed in mid-2004, the movie was originally independent , and interior scenes were vastly filmed in

7110-520: The siblings' cousin Jesse Draper portrays Jesse Cook; and Michael Wolff plays the siblings' father, Sonny, the latter whom Draper notes she wrote similar to that of a child. The Timmerman Brothers—a band no longer famous—consists of three siblings, who in real life are Polly's nephews, Nat and Alex's cousins, and thus Jesse's brothers and cousin. In addition, Jesse's real-life father, Polly's brother, and thus Nat and Alex's uncle reoccurs as

7200-504: The song "Help!" that same night. The official title was announced on 14 April. Aside from Eight Arms to Hold You , this title won over suggestions from Harrison ( Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge ) and United Artists producer Walter Shenson ( The Day the Clowns Collapsed ). The Beatles had also suggested High-Heeled Knickers , a play on the title of Tommy Tucker 's 1964 hit song " High-Heeled Sneakers ". The photographer Michael Peto

7290-607: The streets kids are calling out their names. They can't believe it.' " According to Nat, "After the show came on, people began to really treat us like huge rock stars. They'd scream on the street, and we'd look behind us to see what they were screaming about, because we didn't realize it was us." The family encountered an incident in the past; they had to delist and change their phone number in Lower Manhattan because fans worldwide were calling their apartment relentlessly. Draper recalls, "Little girls would call and say, 'Helloooo,

7380-972: The television movie " Mystery Girl ", which premiered in October 2008. It also aired 3 other TV movies, 1 animated TV special, 1 special webisode, and 3 other episodes, concluding with "No School's Fools Day" in June 2009. In this season, Nat, Thomas, David, and Cooper are 13 with Qaasim being 14, while Alex is 10 and Rosalina is 15. The season features an array of celebrities making cameo appearances, including actresses Miranda Cosgrove and Whoopi Goldberg , singer Natasha Bedingfield , and musicians David Desrosiers and Simon Kirke . Other celebrity appearances include musicians Tobin Esperance and Questlove , actor and musician Leon Thomas , actress Victoria Justice , and talk show host Dave Attell . Daniel Raymont, Tuffy Questall, Teala Dunn, Catherine Curtin, and Matt Pinfield all return, with Andrew Keenan-Bolger portraying Christophe,

7470-565: The time, said Help! relied too heavily on "the likeable vacant grin of John Lennon, the smooth charm of Paul, the long-haired good looks of George, and the darkly villainous looks of the Long-Nosed One [Ringo Starr]", and that these qualities were insufficient to carry a film. In his contemporary review in The New York Times , film critic Bosley Crowther stated: "It's a fiasco of farcical whimseys that are thrown together in this film –

7560-468: Was a heightened reality..." —Nat Wolff, star, singer, and composer Principal photography takes place at Kidzhouse Entertainment, the stage one division of Broadway Stages in Brooklyn, New York over the summer and early fall. That way, the boys are able to continue attending private school throughout most of the year. Being the showrunner —or leading executive producer , Polly Draper oversees

7650-509: Was announced as the official title in mid-March 1965. The latter title was printed on the cover artwork of the single "Ticket to Ride" as from the upcoming film. Because of this, the phrase has been used as a title for an album by Veruca Salt , and for songs by Goon Squad for the Goonies movie, and by the Brittles, a Beatles-pastiche band. By mid-April 1965, the press was already announcing

7740-486: Was commissioned in 1965 to take still photographs during the making of the film; these became known for their candid and expressive quality. During the digitisation of the Michael Peto Collection, which is held by Archive Services, University of Dundee , in 2002, 500 previously unpublished photographs of the Beatles taken during the making of Help! were reported to have been uncovered. Now These Days are Gone ,

7830-446: Was given a larger budget for this film than he had for A Hard Day's Night , thanks to the commercial success of the latter. Thus, this feature film was in colour and was shot on several overseas locations. It was also given a more extensive musical score than A Hard Day's Night , provided by a full orchestra, and included excerpts of well known classical music: Wagner 's Lohengrin , Act III prelude, Tchaikovsky 's 1812 Overture ,

7920-412: Was originally an independent film shot in mid-2004 depicting Nat and Alex Wolff when they were nine and six years old respectively, along with Nat's friends and the other band members Joshua Kaye, David Levi, Thomas Batuello, and Cooper Pillot. They film a documentary about their world-renowned band, The Silver Boulders, as they fracture due to Nat's song about a girl named Rosalina (Allie DiMeco). Later on,

8010-460: Was released in February 1987 in VHS and Beta through MPI, along with a reissue of A Hard Day's Night the very same day, and was followed by a special-edition release on 31 October 1995. MPI also issued a CLV laserdisc in 1995 and two releases on DVD, the first as a single DVD release on 12 November 1997 and the second as part of The Beatles DVD Collector's Set on 8 August 2000. LaserDisc releases include

8100-399: Was their last full-length scripted theatrical film. The Beatles saw the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine (in which their characters were voiced by actors, and they themselves made only a token appearance) as a favourable way to complete their commitment to United Artists for a third film. Many fans have assumed that the cartoon did not satisfy the contract, but their cameo appearance at

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