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28 April 1995 (USA) moreTagline:
Weird sex · Obsession · Comic booksPlot:
A cinematic portrait of the controversial comic book writer/artist and his traumatized family. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
13 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Crumb Transmutes Kafka (From CultureCatch. 19 November 2008, 8:09 AM, PST)
S. Clay Wilson Hospitalized
(From Comicmix. 10 November 2008, 3:16 PM, PST)
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An unusual tribute to the artistic mind moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Crumb | ... | Himself | |
| Aline Kominsky | ... | Herself (as Aline Crumb) | |
| Charles Crumb | ... | Himself | |
| Maxon Crumb | ... | Himself | |
| Robert Hughes | ... | Himself | |
| Martin Muller | ... | Himself | |
| Don Donahue | ... | Himself | |
| Dana Morgan | ... | Herself (as Dana Crumb) | |
| Trina Robbins | ... | Herself | |
| Spain Rodriguez | ... | Himself | |
| Bill Griffith | ... | Himself | |
| Deirdre English | ... | Herself | |
| Peggy Orenstein | ... | Herself | |
| Beatrice Crumb | ... | Herself | |
| Kathy Goodell | ... | Herself |
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Rated R for graphic sex-related cartoons, and for language.Parents Guide:
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Factual errors: "San Francisco" is misspelled in the closing titles. The caption reads: "Max Crumb still lives in San Francicsco". moreQuotes:
Robert Crumb: France isn't - you know - perfect, or anything, but - it's just - oh, slightly less evil than the United States. moreSoundtrack:
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A great movie about how expressing yourself through art can save your sanity. People who didn't know anything about R. Crumb beforehand (like me) can get a look at what drives the stories and characters in his often vulgar artwork and comics. For instance, any of the villains in his work are based on people who made his life a living hell when he was kid. Decades after the fact he still seems to be nurturing those old grudges. At first it seems a bit petty and immature but then we meet his two brothers. They are both talented artists as well but they never learned to express themselves through their works as Robert did. They never found an outlet for their obsessions. Charles became an introvert who hadn't left his mother's house for many years and Maxon developed a fondness for sexual harassing women and sitting on nails. It was probably Robert Crumb's art that enabled him to escape from his own head.
All three brothers talk in a very articulate yet somewhat detached manner. You get the sense of love between them, buried beneath decades of pain and emotional repression. When a picture of them as teenagers sitting next to each other on the couch is shown, all of them handsome and apparently very intelligent and artistic, I felt sad and maybe even a little mad. Why were they "chosen" to be the big victims in life? Poor Charles Crumb never had a chance. Crumb is a great movie that probes the darker corners of human emotions (Bobby Driscoll?!) and a tribute to the usefulness of an artistic mind. **** out of ****