Grand Theft Parsons

Grand Theft Parsons is a 2003 film based on the true story of country rock musician Gram Parsons played by Gabriel Macht, who died of an overdose in 1973. Parsons and his road manager, Phil Kaufman Johnny Knoxville, made a pact in life that whoever died first would be cremated by the other in what was then the Joshua Tree National Monument, an area of desert they both loved and cherished.

Grand Theft Parsons was shown in the Park City at Midnight section at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.The film received mixed notices from critics. In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote, Parsons himself might have written a surreal, funnysad ballad about the aftermath of his own death, but Grand Theft Parsons is little more than a surreal anecdote, told in too much detail and without enough soul or imagination to make anything more than a footnote to a legend. Kimberley Jones, in her review for the Austin Chronicle, wrote, Black comedy can be a beautiful thing, but Grand Theft Parsons consistently misses that mark for a more bottomfeeding tasteless and broad, with the occasional hamhanded, soulless stab at sober reflection. In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Crust found Johnny Knoxville surprisingly good but felt that the script left a lot to be desired, strewn with dialogue as flat and stale as old beer and some invented characters who make the events depicted seem more silly than anarchic. ........

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