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Cockettes, The

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by:
Bill Weber
David Weissman
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 28, 2002
DVD: January 21, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the legendary San Francisco theatrical troupe, a group of flamboyant hippies who decked themselves in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter.
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What The Critics Said
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Film Threat Chris Gore
This is one of those rare docs that paints a grand picture of an era and makes the journey feel like a party.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The Cockettes weren't talented, exactly, yet the bedazzled flakiness of their passion takes you closer than just about any movie has to what was once really meant by the term ''free-spirited.''
Read Full Review >New Times (L.A.) David Ehrenstein
Brilliant new documentary.
Variety David Rooney
Joyously re-creates the brief but resplendent reign of the legendary freakadelic drag troupe.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Cue the footage of Cockettes in spangles and glitter, high-kicking and belting out show tunes at the top of their lungs. Damn, it looks grand.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The Cockettes is a grand place to visit, even for those who wouldn't want to live there.
Chicago Tribune Loren King
It puts The Cockettes into social, political and popular cultural context and gives the documentary a moving resonance.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
The film does leave you with the lingering regret that you missed a hell of a good party. It is, as the kids used to say, a trip.
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
A fascinating, richly detailed documentary about the legendary queer collective based in San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Looks like Weimar decadence and feels like down-home friendship.
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
An absorbing primer in one of the most fascinating chapters in American social history.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Revisits the San Francisco of the late 1960's and early 70's, a time and place so encrusted with legend and cliché that you might wonder if there is anything left to say. It turns out there is quite a lot -- which the filmmakers have brought triumphantly to life.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle James Sullivan
A sweet-natured reconsideration of one of San Francisco's most vital, if least widely recognized, creative fountainheads.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
The Cockettes is a fascinating poke into the soul of the '60s and it moves past a simple chronology of a counterculture phenomenon to examine how this predecessor to glitter rock and camp movies, such as "The Rocky Horror Show," could ever have ascended to such heights.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The Cockettes epitomized a brief confluence of new possibilities, not so much in theater as in personal style, lending them a certain historical value that greatly exceeds their contribution to theater.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This amazing footage alternates with interviews that include more than a dozen surviving members of the troupe, whose recollections are by turn funny, touching and mind-boggling. What a time!
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Makes a terrific case for the group's historical importance, even though its performances seem more fun to discuss than watch.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark H. gave it a 10:
Can we all just learn that glamour and talent of people on drugs is only glam to a point the dark reality is that so many of them are gone and that kind of energy and creative flow has changed to a new age of glamour and less madness!
Ricky G. gave it a 10:
One of the best documentaries since gimme shelter!
