Story :Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Cast
Frank ZappaSelf (archive footage)
Theodore BikelRance Muhammitz (archive footage)
Arlene FrancisSelf (archive footage)
Keith MoonSelf (archive footage)
Steve AllenSelf (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl BlackSelf (archive footage)
Pierre BoulezSelf (archive footage)
Thomas BradenSelf (archive footage)
Napoleon Murphy BrockSelf (archive footage)
Paul CarmanSelf (archive footage)
Katie CouricSelf (archive footage)
Mike DouglasSelf (archive footage)
George DukeSelf (archive footage)
Václav HavelSelf (archive footage)
AngelSelf (archive footage)
Chuck AshSelf - Pennsylvania State Police (archive footage)
Arthur BarrowSelf (archive footage)
Adrian BelewSelf (archive footage)
Tom BrokawSelf (archive footage)
Wally BrunerSelf (archive footage)
Del CasherSelf (archive footage)
Vinnie ColaiutaSelf (archive footage)
Connie ChungSelf (archive footage)
Robin DenselowSelf (archive footage)
Aynsley DunbarSelf (archive footage)
Ensemble ModernThemselves (archive footage)
Roy EstradaSelf (archive footage)
Bruce FowlerSelf (archive footage)
Tom FowlerSelf (archive footage)
Walt FowlerSelf (archive footage)
Jamie GangelSelf (archive footage)
Bunk GardnerSelf (archive footage)
Tipper GoreSelf (archive footage)
Judy GridleyChorus Leader (archive footage)
Robert HagerSelf (voice) (archive footage)
Paula Fickes HawkinsSelf - US Senator (Florida) (archive footage)
Ralph HumphreySelf (archive footage)
Johnny JacobsSelf (archive footage)
Howard KaylanSelf (archive footage)
Mike KeneallySelf (archive footage)
Martin LickertSelf (archive footage)
June LockhartSelf (archive footage)
London Symphony OrchestraThemselves (archive footage)