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Overall Rank: 9039
Average Rating: 2.9/4
# of Ratings: 4
Theatrical Release Date: 01/05/2011
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 07/19/2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Actors: Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Christopher Hitchens, Tom Hayden
Plot: Documentary exploring Phil Ochs, a musician who may have been overshadowed by his contemporaries, but whose music still resonates today despite his elusive commercial success. -- Chris Kavan
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mitchellyoung - wrote on 07/31/2012
Although it follows the usual documentary chronological format of tracing the major elements of Phil Ochs' life, the film succeeds in creating a narrative using only dialogue from interviews, as well as direct quotes from many of Ochs' songs. The absence of a narrator makes the film feel more like an immersion into, rather than a dramatization of, the singer's life. As far as expanding on Och's place in musical, as well as political, history, the film succeeds and is, to date, the best investigation of an often forgotten folk hero's life and work.
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