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.
Frank Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Theodore Bikel
as Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
Arlene Francis
as Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
as Self (archive footage)
Steve Allen
as Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl Black
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez
as Self (archive footage)
Thomas Braden
as Self (archive footage)
Napoleon Murphy Brock
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Carman
as Self (archive footage)
Katie Couric
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Douglas
as Self (archive footage)
