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The Fearless Freaks

  • 20052005
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  • 1h 40m
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7.8/10
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The Fearless Freaks (2005)
  • Documentary
  • Biography
  • Music
A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips.A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips.A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips.
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  • Director
    • Bradley Beesley
  • Stars
    • Bradley Beesley
    • Steve Burns
    • Dolly Coyne
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  • Director
    • Bradley Beesley
  • Stars
    • Bradley Beesley
    • Steve Burns
    • Dolly Coyne
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    • 8User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
    • 78Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Bradley Beesley
    Bradley Beesley
    • Narrator
    Steve Burns
    Steve Burns
    • Self
    Dolly Coyne
    • Self
    Kenny Coyne
    • Self
    Marty Coyne
    • Self
    Tommy Coyne
    • Self
    Wayne Coyne
    Wayne Coyne
    • Self
    Jonathan Donahue
    • Self
    James Drozd
    • Self
    Steven Drozd
    Steven Drozd
    • Self
    Vernon Drozd
    • Self
    The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips
    • Themselves
    Adam Goldberg
    Adam Goldberg
    • Self
    Nic Harcourt
    • Self
    Gibby Haynes
    Gibby Haynes
    • Self
    Michael Ivins
    Michael Ivins
    • Self
    K. Blaine Johnston
    K. Blaine Johnston
    • Self
    Juliette Lewis
    Juliette Lewis
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      • Bradley Beesley
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    • Quotes

      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.

    • Connections
      References Christmas on Mars (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Fight Test
      Written by The Flaming Lips & Cat Stevens (as Yusuf Islam)

      EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. (BMI)

      Performed by The Flaming Lips

      Courtesy of Warner Special Markets

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    8/10
    Would you want Wayne Coyne as your Neighbor? I would!
    '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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    • Release date
      • March 13, 2005 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Shout Factory (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Бесстрашные уродцы
    • Production company
      • Shout! Factory
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      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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