The story behind the new movie “Power Ballad” is a good one. A struggling lead singer, named Rick Power (Paul Rudd), in a group touring in Ireland, shares the stage during a wedding with a famous and successful solo singer Danny Wilson, played by Nick Jonas. Later that evening, they drink and start exchanging ideas about writing music, eventually coming up with a very good song that Danny produces, and it becomes a huge hit.

Several months later, Rick hears his song in a shopping mall and sets the stage for a phone call to Danny’s agent, trying to get credit and financial compensation for a new song that turned out to be a huge worldwide hit. Over the weeks and months of disagreements over who really wrote the song, there are times when Danny has guilt over stealing an idea from Rick, but Danny’s manager Binzer (Rory Keenan) does everything he can to prevent Rick Power from ever receiving credit or any money from the song. Eventually, this reaches a violent conclusion with a fight in a hot tub during a party at Danny’s Hollywood Hills home.

The best part of this film is the message about doing business with other people. It is always better to have friends to collaborate with many times in the future, rather than accumulate enemies by screwing over another human being. Unfortunately, this is not the path that way too many of the wrong people take, who never realize that making friends and long-term business partners when everybody wins is always better than making enemies.

The conclusion of this good story was very believable and provided a satisfying ending.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 84% are correct, and I recommend this well-done film.