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Director:
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Jeremy Drysdale (story) &
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Release Date:
18 June 2004 (USA) more
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It's better to burn out than to fade away. more
Plot:
There are times when it's right and proper to simply bury the dead. This is not one of those times..... more | add synopsis
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Johnny Knoxville Lands Big Payday
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Sweet, but not as satisfying as it might have been more (33 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jamie McShane ... Radio Announcer

Johnny Knoxville ... Phil Kaufman

Danielle Sapia ... Girl at Joshua Tree Inn

Gabriel Macht ... Gram Parsons

Robert Alan Beuth ... Reporter

Sara Arrington ... Crying Girl

Scott Adsit ... Music Expert

Mary Pat Gleason ... Nurse

David Caffrey ... TV Interviewer

Alexa Sheehan ... Nurse 2 (as Alexa Motley)

Wesley Mann ... Doctor

Marley Shelton ... Susie

Christina Applegate ... Barbara

Jim Cody Williams ... Truck Driver
Kay E. Kuter ... Undertaker
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Rated PG-13 for drug references and some language.
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88 min
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Johnny Knoxville broke his nose during filming. more
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Continuity: The motorcycle cop's motorcycle is knocked over but, in subsequent shots, is standing up again. more
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Uniform Cop: Wherever there's a hippie, there's a crime, even if that crime hasn't happened yet. That's what I always say. more
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A Song For You more

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Sweet, but not as satisfying as it might have been, 8 January 2007
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Author: groening-2 from United States

Movie trivia fanatics will remember the play Dustin Hoffman's character wanted to stage in "Tootsie." Written by his roommate (played by Bill Murray), it was called "Return to Love Canal," about the (apparently) true story of a couple who returned to live near the toxic waste site, knowing what was there. "It really happened," Hoffman's character says earnestly to anyone who will listen.

"Grand Theft Parsons" is also based on a true story, one equally bizarre and yet compelling -- after country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons died in 1973, his road manager and buddy Phil Kaufman stole the corpse to cremate it in the desert, as part of a pact the two made in life. But just like "Return To Love Canal," "Grand Theft Parsons" does not have a leg up on being great drama simply because it is based in fact.

The film works hard at building momentum and dramatic tension by bringing in former girlfriends, Parsons' father and the inevitable cop or two, but none of these elements really have much to do with the heart of the story. In the end, "Grand Theft Parsons" succeeds modestly in making us feel the emotions that accompany friendship between men who have been on a long, strange trip together. And actually, we get two versions of that kind of friendship: the bond between Parsons and Kaufman, and the Butch-and-Sundance partnership that emerges between Kaufman and the drug-addled hippie who supplies the hearse used in the body heist.

There's a sweetness to "Grand Theft Parsons," but it's not as satisfying as it might have been if more of the back-story had been told.

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