Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

2011

1h 47m

Documentary

Music

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With a blistering combination of punk and funk, Fishbone demolishes the walls of genres and challenges the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.

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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is an entertaining, heartwarming, and balanced documentary about the influential Los Angeles band.

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Danielle Johnsen

IndieWire

12/06/2019

A-

Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, its in-depth interviews with band members, friends and fellow musicians from the punk/ska scene of the late 1980's make it so you don't have to be a fan of Fishbone to be enthralled by their story.

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

01/10/2012

3/4

It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now.

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

01/05/2012

3/4

It's a movie about what it's like to almost make it in the music business, but not really, not quite. It's about coming close and watching it slip away.

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Tom Santilli

Movie Show Plus

Apr 16

5/5

The story of Fishbone inspires and leaves you rooting for their future success.

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SF Weekly Staff

SF Weekly

Apr 16

... it's refreshing to hear group members repeatedly stress that their art was rooted in black culture and consciousness as the film becomes a dialectic on black masculinity.

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Lee Gardner

Baltimore Sun

Apr 16

Fishbone’s story is as unique as its music, but Everyday Sunshine is at its most fascinating when it comes to detailing the band members’ lives and relationships over their long history together.

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07/01/2021

A fantastic, authentic and critical look at a band that was FAR ahead of its time. One day, I suspect, there will be a Fishbone renaissance. Until then, I'll have to humorously agree with Angelo's mother (Dazireen Moore).

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12/09/2020

One of the BEST movie/docs made.

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11/03/2017

One of my favorite bands of all time. One of the most underrated as well. This documentary shows the highs and lows, warts and all of the music industry. I'd recommend this to all Fishbone soldiers.

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11/30/2015

One of the best bands of all time gets a fantastic documentaries.

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10/01/2015

i haven't stopped thinking about this one for a few days.

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07/13/2015

Originality is an under-appreciated commodity. Democracy among an ensemble of creative genius is a necessary component of the true mutual accommodation of its full potential. Originality is an accident that when allowed to flow into a controlled cooperative experiment can release immense creative power. Thwarted, it becomes habit & formulae for cliche & drudgery. Even at the price of deserved wealth & fame, true spontaneity must maintain an element of itself throughout.

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Lev Anderson

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Synopsis

With a blistering combination of punk and funk, Fishbone demolishes the walls of genres and challenges the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.

Director: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Producer: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Screenwriter: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Distributor: Cinema Guild
Production Co: Pale Griot
Genre: Documentary, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2015
Runtime: 1h 47m