Summary
A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+9)
Critics 70Audiences 79GoodWatch 64
Tomatometer82%
Metascore57
Audience score84%
IMDb7.4
Running time
1 h 26 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −10 min on the typical 96
typical 9686Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2005
March 1, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryMusicLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 10 more27 people
- Wild Man FischerSelf
- Frank ZappaSelf (archive footage)
- Don Van VlietSelf (archive footage)
- 'Weird Al' YankovicSelf
- Bill MumySelf
- GZGail ZappaSelf
- DFDavid FischerSelf
- FFreakSelf
- Dick MartinSelf
- Mark MothersbaughSelf
- GSGigi ShepardSelf
- HBHarold BronsonSelf
- SBSolomon BurkeSelf
- Ruth BuzziSelf (archive footage)
- JCJosephine ChueySelf
- ICIrwin ChusidSelf
- DPDennis P. EichhornSelf
Miguel FerrerSelf- DFDavid FischerSelf
- RFRichard FoosSelf
- BHBarry HansenSelf
- FtFugly the KlownSelf
Bill PaxtonSelf (archive footage)
Dan RowanSelf (archive footage)
Directing · 1
- Josh Rubin Director, Editor
Production · 3
- Faithe Raphael Executive Producer
- Jeremy Lubin Producer, Editor
- Nathan Miller Associate Producer
Editing · 1
- Howard Leder Editor
Other crew · 1
- Bryan Newman Cinematography
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