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- 2013
- PG-13
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
- 2013
- PG-13
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
Summary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music's greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star.
Directed By: Drew DeNicola, Olivia Mori
Written By: Drew DeNicola
- 2013
- PG-13
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
- 2013
- PG-13
- Magnolia Pictures
- 1 h 53 m
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
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Summary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music's greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star.
Directed By: Drew DeNicola, Olivia Mori
Written By: Drew DeNicola
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
69
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Directors Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori’s film Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me looks at the band’s rise, such as it was, and its inevitable crumbling, as well as the influence its recorded legacy had on popular music. And it’s terrific.
Fans will want to replay the extensive archival footage over and over. Newcomers are more likely to pause halfway through, search out the superlative soundtrack, and immerse themselves in the music that inspired this rare, fall-and-rise story in the first place.
If Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me leads even one person to listen to Big Star for the first time, this movie will have done a great service.
It’s a fascinating period in music and an equally fascinating story of promise, talent, expectations and failure. But you can’t help but feel that Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me won’t settle the most important argument of all to the unconverted — Were they as good as the hype?
Big Star may not be the best introduction for those who don't yet have at least some passing familiarity with the bruised-knee wistfulness of songs like "Thirteen," or the quavery undersea despair of "Kangaroo." But for anyone already curious, Nothing Can Hurt Me delivers the goods.
Nothing Can Hurt Me is frustratingly unfocused, petering out considerably after its first hour.
Big Star’s fans are so passionate that this film may well please some of them, but as for myself, I already knew their music was genius. By the end, I was muttering at every critic and musician and record producer, “Guys, tell me something I don’t know.”
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Production Company
September Gurls Productions,
Ardent Studios,
The Group Entertainment,
Omnivore Entertainment Group
Release Date Jul 3, 2013
Duration 1 h 53 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline The definitive story of the greatest band that never made it.
