Grand Theft Parsons

Starring:Scott Adsit, Christina Applegate, Sara Arrington, Robert Alan Beuth, Shawna Casey, Robert Forster, Mary Pat Gleason, Simone Hammond, Johnny Knoxville, Kay E. Kuter, Gabriel Macht, Wesley Mann, Jamie McShane, Alexa Motley, Brian Nahas, Danielle Sapia, Michael Shannon, Marley Shelton, Jim Cody Williams
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Harsh judgement against Applegate's Character
Original story lost in lousy movie
One of the worst, most needlessly inaccurate - EVER.
Not too grand, not really a theft, and not a lot of parsons
Better than I thought it would be

Grand Theft Parsons
Starring: Scott Adsit , Christina Applegate , Sara Arrington , Robert Alan Beuth , and Shawna Casey
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002V7SO8
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Description

Johnny Knoxville (Jackass: The Movie, Walking Tall) shows off star power in his firstleading role as the hard-drinking, motorcycle-riding rock 'n' roll manager Phil Kaufman. When legendary singer Gram Parsons dies, Kaufman steals the body to keep his promise to make Joshua Tree Gram's final resting place. Chased by the cops, Gram's father and Gram's psycho ex-girlfriend, Betty (Christina Applegate), Kaufman embarks on a darkly comic adventure deep into the desert. Based on a truestory, this reckless road movie exceeds all limits.

Customer Reviews:

Harsh judgement against Applegate's Character.......2007-06-30

I saw this movie on Cable in a motel room in Chicago and I really felt for Applegate's Character. I thought back to the time I visited Joshua Tree and about my personal relationship with a man with a serious substance abuse problem. I did stay in the Gram Parson's death room at the Joshua Tree Inn about 10 years ago, and I feel a certain connection to him in a way. When I saw this film, I just thought how terrible the woman Applegate's character is based upon must feel if she were ever to see this film. Gram Parsons basically killed himself. If you haven't lived with and loved an alcoholic or drug addict, you have no idea how this woman felt or would have reacted to his death. Of course she's going to be angry, what kind of person dies like that? He drove out to the middle of the desert and overdosed. He was alone in a hotel room, and he killed himself with substances. Sure, he was a great song writer, but come on, I'm sure he wasn't perfect, he wasn't a saint. You people don't know what it's like to fight for someone with an addiction. You people don't know what it's like to fight every day to make this person whom you love stop using drugs, stop drinking and want to live. To BLAME Applegate's character in the end, was just a low blow. Who are you to make that kind of assumption? That Parsons killed himself to get away from her? Maybe he had his own demons that Applegate's character didn't have any control over. Who are you to accuse her and that she had any influence in his death? You write this screenplay and make her responsible for his death, in the end. He killed himself. Maybe he was beating her, there are several different types of abuse, mental, physical, emotional, sexual... did you ever think of that? Maybe Applegate's character had been abused beyond her limit of tolerance. Maybe he was too insane to live... and his death was the final blow. Death was so easy for him and he left behind a cross for her to bear. Maybe she was just trying to save him, and after his death she had a normal reaction of anger and frustration. Even in the synopsis of this film they call her "Betty (Applegate) the psycho exgirlfriend"...living with a drug addict makes you psycho...that's not fair. What misogynist wrote that discription? To the screenwriter... were you there? Did you witness private moments between the two of them? How dare you say she would be responsible for his suicide. Do you have any idea what it's like to pick up the pieces after something like that happens? His death was a selfish, careless, loveless act. It was his choice, in the end. To include that line at the end, about how he did what he did to get away from Applegate's character did a disservice to all women involved with men with substance abuse problems. That line adds insult to injury. Maybe she was in for the long haul and he was a black hole and maybe she was just trying to pull herself out of the pit he dragged her into. Unless you lived her life, you have NO RIGHT to make that accusation against her. It doesn't help that he was famous and people sing his praises and basically forget that he had a substance problem. He killed himself, she had nothing to do with it... no one is defending her and the screenwriter should feel ashamed.

Original story lost in lousy movie.......2006-07-17

Recently I purchased Gram Parsons' Complete Reprise Session, which is great, and then heard that a movie had been made about his terrible death. What I ended up with is this junk. I give it two stars because of its attempt, albeit feeble, to tell the Parsons' corpse theft story. I don't give it any more stars because it is a bad movie -- lousy acting, stupid script. I haven't felt this sick since watching Forrest Gump.

One of the worst, most needlessly inaccurate - EVER........2006-06-22

The original story is so grand and rich - WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO TAKE LIBERTIES WITH IT?
This is seriously one of the worst movies I've ever seen, subject matter aside. The details are useslessly misarranged and the cast performance is simply garbage. Garbage.
Don't bother. Don't buy.
From a non-fan's p.o.v., there's nothing interesting about it, aside from the fact that you know it's BASED on a true story. If you can get past the vomit-inducing laziness of the production go read the real story and you will ask yourself "why didn't they just directly shoot from this?"

Not too grand, not really a theft, and not a lot of parsons.......2006-01-30

If you're a fan of Johnny Knoxville (whoever he is), then wild horses couldn't drag you away from this movie. If you're a Gram Parsons fan, particularly in the elderly set, this movie is likely to give you the deep blues. I was really excited to see that someone attempted to tell this weird tale of comradeship, love, and stupidity, and I hope that Phil Kaufmann earned a few bucks from it. Sadly, the movie just doesn't make it, whether as a buddy movie, as a comedy-drama, or as a tale of weirdness. The actors seem to be giving it an earnest effort, but the script is just so stiff (no pun intended) that no one could have carried it off effectively. The movie fails to shed much light on Gram Parsons, who, contrary to the film's depiction, was largely unknown to the masses at the time of his death (the Byrds' Sweetheart album was a commercial disappointment; the Burrito albums were commercial disasters; Gram's own first album was already in the cut-out bins when I bought it for $2 in early summer 1973. His death created some anticipation for his second solo album, but essentially no one bought it at the time. If you don't believe me, look at the Billboard charts, where it hardly measured in the top 200 LPs! Gram's legend would come later, thanks to large measure to Emmy Lou Harris' devotion). The film is success, however, in revealing that Parsons commanded an immense amount of respect from his friends and colleagues. One hopes that someone else tries to tackle this compelling story sometime in the future, hopefully with a better script and a stronger vision.

Better than I thought it would be.......2006-01-27

I watched this movie cause of Johnny Knoxville, I didn't even know there was a Gram Parsons. That shouldn't matter since this movie made me aware of him, but the movie and acting was great. I loved the hippie, gonna have to go back and watch some movies with Michael Shannon in it. And, you shouldn't judge Johnny Knoxville because of what he has done in the past, he was cast great in this movie. The only problem I had with it was Christina Applegate, but thats cause I don't really care for her since Married with Children, she will always be known as Kelly Bundy to me. Marley Shelton was also great in this movie, she needs to be more known than her teeny bopper type roles they cast her in. Overall, this was a great movie to watch, whether you knew who Gram Parsons was.

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