Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015 · Movie · NR · 132 min · ★ 7.6 · 90% critics
Experience a fully authorized, intimate documentary built from the subject’s personal archive, including art, music, rarely seen home movies, animation, and interviews from family and close friends. It presents a life story shaped by creativity, fame, and personal turmoil.
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-03-23
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Critic score
- 90/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (752 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this intimate, music-driven documentary montage if you want rare personal materials and an experimental presentation; Not for you if you prefer a straightforward Nirvana story, or if sensitive, invasive home-video moments are a turnoff.
Pros: intimate archive; bold animation; strong emotion | Cons: invasive feeling; heavy on interviews; uneven focus
Themes
- drug abuse
- musician
- rock star
- lifestyle
- drug addiction
- seattle, washington
- biography
- grunge
- addiction
- price of fame
- fatherhood
- indie rock
- +7 more
Cast & crew
Kurt Cobain
as Self (archive footage)
Courtney Love
as Self
Krist Novoselic
as Self
Dave Grohl
as Self (archive footage)
Frances Bean Cobain
as Self (archive footage)
Pat Smear
as Self (archive footage)
Dale Crover
as Self (archive footage)
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Buzz Osborne
as Self (archive footage)
Eric Erlandson
as Self (archive footage)
Jennifer Finch
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Brett Morgen