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The Cockettes (2002)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:11
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: The Cockettes provides a colorful, eye-opening view of the counterculture 1960s.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: In 1969 San Francisco, a group of hippies were assembled by a charismatic free spirit known as Hibiscus to create an act to go on before a midnight film festival. They dressed in outlandish and... [More]
Starring: Sylvia Miles, John Waters, Holly Woodlawn
Director: David Weissman, Bill Weber
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Reviews for The Cockettes
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Top CriticCockettes has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.
09/06/02
Top CriticAs Weber and Weissman demonstrate with such insight and celebratory verve, the Cockettes weren't as much about gender, sexual preference or political agitprop as they were simply a triumph of the indomitable human will to rebel, connect and create.
09/06/02
Top CriticAn insightfully cheeky entertainment.
08/21/02
Top CriticThis expert, heartfelt movie establishes them as being as much a part of swingin' San Francisco as the Grateful Dead or the Beats.
08/09/02
Top CriticManages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
08/08/02
Top CriticAn irresistible documentary look at the ensemble of the moment in the hippie kingdom of San Francisco, this comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.
07/26/02
Top CriticA funny, triumphant, and moving documentary.
07/11/02
Top CriticIndulgent, tedious documentary.
06/28/02
Top CriticIt turns out there is quite a lot that the endlessly recycled and diluted images of the storied counterculture have obscured about some of the most interesting and vital parts of the culture itself, which the filmmakers have brought triumphantly to life.
06/27/02
Top CriticFond, funny documentary.
06/25/02
Top CriticA sweet-natured reconsideration of one of San Francisco's most vital, if least widely recognized, creative fountainheads.
05/10/02
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