Do It Again, directed by Robert Patton-Spruill

Tonight at the Speciality Cinema at 9.15 p.m. and Monday at 3.45 p.m.

Geoff Edgers is a reporter on the Boston Globe whose 40th birthday is fast approaching and who wants to do something big and vital before he truly hits middle age.

He sets himself what anyone with a reasonable knowledge of 1960s British rock music would probably describe as Mission Impossible: getting the original members of The Kinks back together.

The bad blood between Ray Davies and his brother Dave which finally caused the band to implode in the early 1990s is legendary.

But Edgers, a huge fan who thinks The Kinks are underrated, is convinced he can pull it off.

The idea is a neat device for a documentary which is really about a man reluctantly waving goodbye to his youth and trying to fulfil at least some of his own musical ambitions.

Edgers is not entirely likeable there's a touch of the arrogant waster about him but that only adds to the enjoyment of the film.

His wife is a perfect foil to this and we see her reminding him about the bills they have to pay before he sets off on his adventure and describing his obsession with the elder Davies brother with weary resignation.

Thanks to his newspaper credentials, Edgers manages to set up interviews with various famous fans of The Kinks Sting and REM's Peter Buck probably the best known among them.

He takes his guitar to each meeting and manages to persuade (almost all) the musicians to play a favourite Kinks song with him. There is something a little cringeworthy about this but also something rather sweet.

Edgers was in a local band in Boston in his younger days and he can certainly strum and sing decently.

Kinks fans will really enjoy watching these impromptu covers that director Robert Patton-Spruill captured on film as well as seeing the expressions of the artists when asked to take part.

As the film progresses, I found myself warming to Edgers. OK, so he doesn't want to change the world and his quest is a bit daft, but if successful it would bring a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.

There is a really touching interview with Dave Davies, whom he tracks down in England and who has been ill recently.

He talks about his fractured relationship with his brother but won't articulate in front of the cameras what Ray would have to say to him there is clearly something he could say to bring the original band back together.

The fact that he is nowhere to be seen at a Kinks convention in London, where Ray takes to the stage with a different incarnation of the group, is really sad.

Before Edgers sets off for the UK, his young daughter tells him he must buy her a lobster dinner if he fails in his challenge.

You'll have to see the movie to find out if The Kinks Do It Again as in their 1985 song or if she gets her meal.