TIFF Review: 'Len And Company' Starring Rhys Ifans, Jack Kilmer & Juno Temple

The personal and professional crossroads of a father and son, and producer and artist, intersect in “Len And Company,” which aims to explore those moments in life when we don’t know what to do next from a couple of different generational viewpoints. And yet, for all the rock ‘n roll swagger the picture brings in its central character, the dramedy plays a fairly traditional cinematic standard, doesn’t bring much original flavor, and let’s it go on far too long in one register.

The story orbits around Len Black (Rhys Ifans), a legendary, hard living musician and producer who, to borrow a description of Keith Richards from “Wayne’s World 2,” likely cannot be killed by conventional weapons. His face is etched with years of self-centered drug and alcohol-fueled mythmaking, but it has lost him his wife Isabelle (Kathryn Hahn), and made him something of a stranger to his college-age son Max (Jack Kilmer). But even worse, Black is burned out. The mojo for music is gone, and so he’s retreated...