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The Cockettes
1969 … San Francisco … Sexual Anarchy
1969 … San Francisco … Sexual Anarchy
Documentary - 2002
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Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
16 Jan 2002
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
4 wins & 7 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
– Loren King,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug 2002
fresh:
This expert, heartfelt movie establishes them as being as much a part of swingin' San Francisco as the Grateful Dead or the Beats.
– Steven Rosen,
Denver Post,
9 Aug 2002
fresh:
An insightfully cheeky entertainment.
– Duane Byrge,
Hollywood Reporter,
21 Aug 2002
fresh:
As 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.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
6 Sep 2002
fresh:
Cockettes has the glorious, gaudy benefit of much stock footage of Those Days, featuring all manner of drag queen, bearded lady and lactating hippie.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
6 Sep 2002
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