The movie that made you ugly-cry now shows you HOW they did it.
Go deep inside the film tick, tick...BOOM! with director Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Andrew Garfield and the rest of the film's acclaimed ensemble. The award-winning biopic tells the story of the late Tony Award®-winning legend Jonathan Larson, an artist at a crossroads desperate to tell his story.
Acting
Garfield's dedication: learning piano, vocals, Larson's entire existence.
Direction
Miranda's debut balances reverence with creative risk.
Production
Recreating 1990s NYC with obsessive period detail.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Garfield had never sung publicly before this role; Miranda sent him to vocal boot camp for months.
Lin-Manuel Miranda discovered tick, tick...BOOM! at age 17—the same age Larson wrote it. Full circle unlocked.
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My heart goes out to Julie Larson, the last surviving Larson family member... Thank you for sharing us your brother's gift and for continuing to keep his legacy alive.
@dlmbs 3432
“This not one of those biopics where you see Mozart writing his masterpiece. This is a movie about failure and getting back up. And his masterpiece is ahead of him. And it’s hopeful because maybe so is yours”
@elladaa5026 1344
"Jonathan Larson sang about the fear of turning 30 and he never reached 40." MY GOD.
@rizzumYT 169
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