Seriously, I'm aware I have something of a double standard there. Fiction about people long dead, also known as historical fiction = great. Fiction about living people = awkward at best, intrusive at worst. Unless, of course, it's one of the many movies of the last decades I completely dug, like The Queen or Frost/Nixon. I would say I blame Peter Morgan, who wrote both, but there are other exceptions. I'm positively frustrated we still don't have a German release date for Nowhere Boy, aka the John Lennon has mother and aunt issues, meets Paul McCartney and founds a band film. And God knows whether we'll ever see the Eccleston Lennon. However, there turned out to be a clip from Nowhere Boy on YouTube, other than the trailer, I mean. This set me idly checking out whether there are clips of other filmic versions of the tale on YouTube, and lo and behold, there are. Including Two of Us, which offers a fictionalized account of the 1976 meeting between Lennon and McCartney in New York, which for my money offers so far the most convincing impersonations of either in the persons of Jared Harris as John and Aidan Quinn as Paul. (Pace, Ian Hart. Backbeat is great, too, but I can't get over how wrong they got the songs.)

( Proving my point, here are some clips )