<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $13 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $20.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American musical comedy film directed by Michael Schultz and written by Henry Edwards . The film tells the loosely constructed story of a band as they wrangle with the music industry and battle evil forces bent on stealing their instruments and corrupting their home town of Heartland . The film is presented in a form similar to that of a rock opera, with the songs providing "dialogue" to carry the story . Only George Burns has spoken lines that act to clarify the plot and provide further narration . </P> <P> The film's soundtrack, released as an accompanying double album, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by the Beatles . The film draws primarily from two of the band's albums, 1967's Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1969's Abbey Road . The film covers all of the songs from the Sgt . Pepper album with the exceptions of "Within You, Without You" and "Lovely Rita", and also includes nearly all of Abbey Road . </P>

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