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Original title: Crumb
Year: 1994
Running time: 119 min.
Country: United States
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Screenwriter: Terry Zwigoff
Cast: Documentary, Self: Robert Crumb
Music: David Boeddinghaus
Cinematography: Maryse Alberti
Producer: Superior Pictures
Genre: Documentary | Based on a Comic. Biography
Synopsis: This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. As stream-of-consciousness images incessantly flow forth from the tip of his pen, biting social satire is revealed, often along with a disturbing and haunting vision of Crumb's own betes noires and inadequacies. As his acid-trip induced images flicker across our own retinas, we gain a little insight into this complex and highly creative individual.

Rankings Position

#86 Best Documentaries in the history of film

Awards: 1995: Sundance: Jury Prize and Best Cinematography

1995: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Documentary

1995: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Documentary

1995: Critics' Choice Awards: Best Documentary

1995: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director / Documentary

1995: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Picture

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"One of the most remarkable and haunting documentaries ever made."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Zwigoff not only presents a complex human being and the range of his art but also guides us through a profound and unsettling consideration of what it means to be an American artist. Essential viewing."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Crumb is a rare and powerful documentary that completely absorbs the viewer and leaves an impression so blindingly clear that the afterimage cannot be blinked away even when the theater is far behind."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"Extraordinary new documentary that turns Robert Crumb's twisted life story into a disturbing, exhilarating work of biographical art."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"'Crumb' is one of the most provocative, haunting documentaries of the last decade."

Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
"A remarkably revealing documentary."

TV Guide
"When it comes to unflinching, riveting looks at a compulsive artist who can't be other than who he is, nothing comes close to 'Crumb'."

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
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