The read
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 20m.
Synopsis
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic57/100
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
12 audience votes
Key crew
- Samantha FullerDirector
- Samantha FullerWriter
Cast
- Samuel FullerSelf
- James FrancoSelf - Reader (segment "Copy Boy")
- Jennifer BealsSelf - Reader (segment "Crime Reporter")
- Bill DukeSelf - Reader (segment "Freelance")
- Wim WendersSelf - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
- Constance TowersSelf - Reader (segment "Grab 'Em. Slap 'Em. Shake 'Em up.")
- William FriedkinSelf - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
- Joe DanteSelf - Reader (segment "Sicily Black and Blue")
- Mark HamillSelf - Reader (segment "The Big Red One: Griff")
- Tim RothSelf - Reader (segment "D-Day - an Invitation to Hell")
- Robert CarradineSelf - Reader (segment "The Big Red One: Zab")
- Monte HellmanSelf - Reader (segment "Vision of the Impossible")
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Themes
movie businesswoman directormemoirs