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Zappa

7.5 (4.1k)
MA15+

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2h 9min

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

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With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

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Zappa is 9131 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie holds the same position in the charts as yesterday. In Australia, it is currently more popular than Gossamer Folds but less popular than Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Cast

Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Self (archive footage)

Mike Keneally
Mike Keneally

Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

Pamela Des Barres
Pamela Des Barres

Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Lonnie Lardner
Lonnie Lardner

Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)

Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse

Self (archive footage)

Don Van Vliet
Don Van Vliet

Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)

The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention

Themselves (archive footage)

Johnny Guitar Watson
Johnny Guitar Watson

Self (archive footage)

Bunk Gardner
Bunk Gardner

Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969

Ian Underwood
Ian Underwood

Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975

Ruth Underwood
Ruth Underwood

Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976

Gail Zappa
Gail Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Wife

Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson

Self - Music Producer (archive footage)

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage)

Roy Estrada
Roy Estrada

Self - Bass (archive footage)

Don Preston
Don Preston

Self - Keyboards (archive footage)

Jimmy Carl Black
Jimmy Carl Black

Self - Drums (archive footage)

Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp)

Carl Schenkel
Carl Schenkel

Self (archive footage)

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

Self (archive footage)

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