“Pet Sounds” is beautiful — with gorgeous vocal harmonies, haunting timbres and wistful lyrics of adolescent longing and estrangement.

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs helped define a revved-up era of American popular music, has died at age 82.

"It was an honor to try to represent a version of him onscreen," Cusack reflects, and for those of us who treasure both artists, that honor feels deeply earned.