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Grand Theft Parsons
(directed by David Caffrey, 2003)
Yes, I'm back again folks with another movie review -- been watching up a storm lately. This one is a little feature that I can't believe stars people like Johnny Knoxville, Christina Applegate and Robert Forster, but what can you do? It's based on the DEATH of musician Gram Parsons -- someone I never knew existed until now. Johnny Knoxville plays his road manager who hires a hippie to drive a hearse to an airport to pick up Gram Parsons' body so he can take it to the desert and burn it in a special ceremony that the two of them planned in case one of them should ever die, but their plans go to Hell when Gram Parsons' father (Forster) shows up to collect the body and fly it back home.
Most of the movie takes place in a yellow painted hearse (complete with flowers painted on it) with Knoxville and the hippie (played by Michael Shannon -- who I found cute, actually). The hippie is constantly lied to by Knoxville in order for Knoxville to successfully pull off his scheme. Marley Shelton plays Knoxville's girlfriend and she hitches a ride with Christina Applegate, who is playing Gram Parsons' girlfriend, who is super bitchy and out for Gram Parsons' money and personal belongings.
The film is decent but feels cheap and indie -- it probably is, I dunno, don't really feel like bothering to check much information up on it, do it yourself. Poor writing, poor editing, but a decent execution and thank God it wasn't that long (an hour and a half.) Johnny Knoxville could have starred in a much better movie -- and especially Christina Applegate -- and what is it with Christina Applegate and movies where she deals with improperly handled dead bodies? You know, I'm thinking of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, where she and her younger siblings ditch their dead old babysitter's body, but keep her car. She seems to be attracted to these kinds of movies, I guess.
I don't recommend Grand Theft Parsons for laughs and entertainment, but fans of the actors and fans of hippies and 1970's nostalgia, as well as morbid but quirky goth people that love hearses and outdoorsy cremation scenes, MIGHT get a kick out of this movie. Skip this, but if you need a good movie after someone you know dies, a movie that doesn't have a hard edge when it comes to death -- this might be the film for you.
(directed by David Caffrey, 2003)
Yes, I'm back again folks with another movie review -- been watching up a storm lately. This one is a little feature that I can't believe stars people like Johnny Knoxville, Christina Applegate and Robert Forster, but what can you do? It's based on the DEATH of musician Gram Parsons -- someone I never knew existed until now. Johnny Knoxville plays his road manager who hires a hippie to drive a hearse to an airport to pick up Gram Parsons' body so he can take it to the desert and burn it in a special ceremony that the two of them planned in case one of them should ever die, but their plans go to Hell when Gram Parsons' father (Forster) shows up to collect the body and fly it back home.
Most of the movie takes place in a yellow painted hearse (complete with flowers painted on it) with Knoxville and the hippie (played by Michael Shannon -- who I found cute, actually). The hippie is constantly lied to by Knoxville in order for Knoxville to successfully pull off his scheme. Marley Shelton plays Knoxville's girlfriend and she hitches a ride with Christina Applegate, who is playing Gram Parsons' girlfriend, who is super bitchy and out for Gram Parsons' money and personal belongings.
The film is decent but feels cheap and indie -- it probably is, I dunno, don't really feel like bothering to check much information up on it, do it yourself. Poor writing, poor editing, but a decent execution and thank God it wasn't that long (an hour and a half.) Johnny Knoxville could have starred in a much better movie -- and especially Christina Applegate -- and what is it with Christina Applegate and movies where she deals with improperly handled dead bodies? You know, I'm thinking of Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead, where she and her younger siblings ditch their dead old babysitter's body, but keep her car. She seems to be attracted to these kinds of movies, I guess.
I don't recommend Grand Theft Parsons for laughs and entertainment, but fans of the actors and fans of hippies and 1970's nostalgia, as well as morbid but quirky goth people that love hearses and outdoorsy cremation scenes, MIGHT get a kick out of this movie. Skip this, but if you need a good movie after someone you know dies, a movie that doesn't have a hard edge when it comes to death -- this might be the film for you.