Steineded How sad is this?

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

runamokprods Maybe I overreacted because my expectations were low, but I thought this was a very impressive, touching and original piece of tiny-budget indie filmmaking. As a drug-sick, alcoholic Williams takes a last limo ride, he imagines a concert in a small time honk-tonk, reaching out and touching people one on one in a way his fame had long made impossible. Corny at moments, but with a terrific heart, and a wonderful leading performance by Sneezy Waters I found myself ready to forgive its shortcomings, and embrace its strengths. I'll be curious to see it again, and see if I have as strong a reaction. Certainly I loved the music far more than I expected, and I am no big country music fan.

teanorth Like the other reviewer stated watching this movie is gut wrenching. It goes so deep. You can feel some of the pain this man Hank Williams was tormented with. He won the Pulitzer Prize this year because his songs went that deep. That deep dark space in our hearts where we hide stuff. The void space where we keep the darkness at bay. It seems with Hank he could not keep the blackness isolated it tormented him, it was painful for him. No one seemed to reach him, maybe it is better said no one seen him for what and who he was. The movie is excellent if you listen you can hear it, you will be moved by it. I highly recommend this movie but I don't know if I want my sister who suffers from depression to see it. Tea McCormick

sl7lg25 This is a movie that should be in the Smithsonian. It's a profound reflection of a time period that produced some of the best American music ever. I was very surprised to read at the end of the film that Hank Williams was only 29 when he died and that he had written over 700 songs many of them classic. I was born in '48 so he was not of my generation but after the 60's rock and roll died I came to appreciate the greats of the past like Hank and Bill Monroe. I think Sneezy Waters did an incredible job of acting. The writing was right on target for humor and the soulful journey that Williams must have experienced. He seems to be searching for a peace that eludes him. I didn't know he had written "I saw the light", which he sings here.

Thomas E. Reed I saw this about a decade ago, at Christmas, on HBO. I don't follow country music, but I knew of Williams from my sister. The story is almost a "Twilight Zone" tale; even as Williams, dying in his alcoholic haze, imagined an ideal concert, his fantasy is plagued by the demons that haunted his real life. The demons include the casual racism of country music of that time (although black music and country were intertwined), the celebrity-hungry fan who wants to seduce a famous person, and (as I recall) the basic despair of the audience, who have no other way to spend Christmas than to go to a bar and get drunk. The end of the fantasy, with Williams's haunting song about being deserted even by God, was devastating. I knew country music was nearly always sad, but I never thought it could approach existential despair. An unforgettable character portrait.