The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 2,459 2020s documentary movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty, struggling to establish himself as the Dylan Thomas of American music, while Susanna pens hit songs and paints album covers for top artists, and Townes spirals in self-destruction after writing some of Americana music’s most enduring and influential ballads.
Ratings
IMDb8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Bart KnaggsWriter
- Tamara SavianoWriter
- Paul WhitfieldDirector
- Tamara SavianoDirector
Cast
- Guy ClarkSelf (archive footage)
- Susanna ClarkSelf (archive footage)
- Townes Van ZandtSelf (archive footage)
- Rodney CrowellSelf
- Steve EarleSelf
- Terry AllenSelf
- Sissy SpacekNarrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
- Jo Harvey AllenSelf
- Vince GillSelf
- Verlon ThompsonSelf
- Barry PossSelf - Sugar Hill Records Founder
