- Studio: Swipe Films
- Release Date: Jun 18, 2004
- Starring: Christina Applegate, Johnny Knoxville, Marley Shelton
- Summary: Inspired by the true story that marked the end of the life of cult musician Gram Parson, this film examines the kind of friendship that saw one man break the law, jeopardise his freedom and race hundreds of miles, to see to it that in death his friend's wishes were honoured. (Swipe Films)
- Director: David Caffrey
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 11
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Mixed: 7 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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80Top it off with a cameo by the real-life Phil Kaufman, and you've got a rock'n'roll road movie like no other. Wherever he is, Gram should get a kick out of it.
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50What could have served as a colorful episode in a more expansive film about the famed singer has instead become the premise of a mildly entertaining but overextended road movie that doesn't succeed on either dramatic or comedic terms.
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30Irish director David Caffrey and English screenwriter Jeremy Drysdale have, respectively, zero sense of pace and a tin-eared grasp of period speech, and together fail either to let us care about their characters or to create any sense of a living era.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 9
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Mixed: 0 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9