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The Fearless Freaks (2005) -- If The Flaming Lips have had an accidental career, then this documentary is indeed an accident as well. After combing through 400 hours of footage, The Fearless Freaks is at last fully realized.

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A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips. | add synopsis
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Beck ... Himself

Bradley Beesley ... Narrator

Steve Burns ... Himself
Dolly Coyne ... Herself
Kenny Coyne ... Himself
Marty Coyne ... Himself
Tommy Coyne ... Himself
Wayne Coyne ... Himself
Jonathan Donahue ... Himself
James Drozd ... Himself
Steven Drozd ... Himself
Vernon Drozd ... Himself

Adam Goldberg ... Himself
Nic Harcourt ... Himself
Gibby Haynes ... Himself
Michael Ivins ... Himself

Juliette Lewis ... Herself
Liz Phair ... Herself
Cat Power ... Herself

Christina Ricci ... Herself
Kliph Scurlock ... Himself
Paul Kent Sylvester ... Himself - fan in giraffe costume
Jack White ... Himself
Meg White ... Herself
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USA:100 min | USA:103 min
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Wayne Coyne: This is really how you die; it's just one minute, you're just cooking up someone's order of french fries, and the next minute you're laying on the floor and they blow your brains out, and there's no music, there's no significance, it's just random - it could've been anybody. more
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Would you want Wayne Coyne as your Neighbor? I would!, 30 May 2005
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Author: pcqgod from Townsville, Texas

'Fearless Freaks' is an excellent documentary that's sure to please longtime fans like myself as well as newer fans, and will probably win them a fair batch of new followers. As 'Watch me Jumpstart' does with Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices, it paints an intimate portrait of head Lip Wayne Coyne as a family man and member of his community. We get plenty of interesting background into Coyne's early family life and nascent artistic aspirations. Interviews with band members, family members, and friends are inter-cut with raw live footage of the group's often very visually fascinating performances. The pace is just right to keep the viewer always entertained and never bored, but not at a breakneck, highly edited MTV-ish pace. My only complaint about the movie is that details on the band's history and specific works by them are rather skimpy. I would have liked to have gotten more details such as Wayne explaining his inspirations for various songs, discussions about their creative process, studio stories, and the like.

Drummer Steven Drozd becomes the other major character in this movie when his addiction to heroin is frankly and almost shockingly discussed and portrayed on film. Without giving too much away, this subplot comes to an apparently happy ending, and the movie concludes on a high note, with The Flaming Lips on stage playing before their enthralled fans, on the verge of another artistic triumph. Here's to The Flaming Lips.

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