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
The Cockettes
1969 … San Francisco … Sexual Anarchy
2002 · 1h 40m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Bill Weber
,
David Weissman
Overview
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Director and cast
- Bill Weber Director
- David Weissman Director
- Larry Brinkin as Self
- Candy Darling as Herself (archive footage)
- Dusty Dawn as Self
- Divine as Herself (archive footage)
- Anton Dunnigan as Self
- Allen Ginsberg as Himself (archive footage)
- John Flowers as Self
- The Grateful Dead as Themselves (archive footage)
- Goldie Glitters as Self
- Ann Harris as Self
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
An insightfully cheeky entertainment.
Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
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
Fresh
Manages to transcend the sex, drugs and show-tunes plot into something far richer.
Loren King, Chicago Tribune
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