2010 · comedy · documentary
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Directed by Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas1h 42m2010
American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks.
Our read: American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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- intimate
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