American: The Bill Hicks Story

American: The Bill Hicks Story

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  • Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
  • Cast(s): Bill Hicks, Kevin Booth, John Farneti, Lynn Hicks
  • Duration: 1h 42min
  • Award(s): Cinema Eye Honors 2011 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Piece by Piece, Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer
  • Story:
    American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks. The film was produced by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, and features archival footage and interviews with family and friends, including Kevin Booth. The filmmakers used a cut-and-paste animation technique to add movement to a large collection of still pictures used to document events in Hicks' life. The film made its North American premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film was nominated for a 2010 Grierson British Documentary Award for the "Most Entertaining Documentary" category. It was also nominated for Best Graphics and Animation category in the 2011 Cinema Eye Awards. Awards won include The Dallas Film Festivals Texas Filmmaker Award, at Little Rock The Oxford American's Best Southern Film Award, and Best Documentary at the Downtown LA Film Festival. On Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of the first 47 reviews counted were rated positive.
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7.7/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks. The film was produced by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, and features archival footage and interviews with family and friends, including Kevin Booth. The filmmakers used a cut-and-paste animation technique to add movement to a large collection of still pictures used to document events in Hicks' life. The film made its North American premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film was nominated for a 2010 Grierson British Documentary Award for the "Most Entertaining Documentary" category. It was also nominated for Best Graphics and Animation category in the 2011 Cinema Eye Awards. Awards won include The Dallas Film Festivals Texas Filmmaker Award, at Little Rock The Oxford American's Best Southern Film Award, and Best Documentary at the Downtown LA Film Festival. On Rotten Tomatoes, 81% of the first 47 reviews counted were rated positive.
Ratings

7.7/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Award

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation | 2011 | Matt

Satellite Award

Best Motion Picture Documentary | 2011

Audience Award

Emerging Visions | 2010 | Paul

DFCC Award

Best Documentary | 2010

BOX OFFICE

Box Office Collection 90,275 USD

TRIVIA

Trivia

When co-director Matt Harlock won the confidence of Bill Hicks's family, it gained him access to 1300 photos and lots of unseen footage.

Bill Hicks was diagnosed with cancer shortly after he decided to clean himself up, coming off drugs and alcohol.

A year before his death, Bill Hicks appeared on the David Letterman show. Letterman judged his segment to be substandard and so cut it from the subsequent show. He did not know that Hicks was dying of pancreatic cancer at the time. 15 years later, in January 2009, Letterman invited Hicks's mother Mary onto the show as a belated form of apology.

It took 3 years to compile all the material for this documentary.

This film made its debut at the London Film Festival, having been finished only a week before.