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It’s a legacy of professionalism and anonymity, one that the ’60s hit-song backup stalwarts known as the Wrecking Crew understood, but which morphed into something a bit different with the ’70s musicians who make up filmmaker Danny Tedesco’s affably nostalgic music documentary “Immediate Family.”

On Friday, he spent a few minutes shaking hands with attendees after his speech, at one point affably helping a woman navigate the camera on her phone for a selfie.

It’s the story of the turnip-rube World War I veteran Lamar Jimmerson, who is conned into buying a “sacred text” on his way home from Europe and then proceeds to affably and mostly ineffectually try to parlay possession of the artifact into a following on the home front.

This is one of the reasons why, despite all the obvious drama and grab-you-by-the-lapels outpourings, the impact of “Champion” is more mellow — earnestly, affably toe-tapping — than fierce or haunting.

I don’t know whether your husband affably changed his plans or made sneaky ones.