The true, stranger-than-fiction postscript to the tragically short life of talented singer-songwriter Gram Parsons provides a great, if morbid, premise for a road picture. In 1973, the 26-year-old Parsons, who during his terms with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as his own brief solo career, was the driving force behind country rock, died of a drug overdose in a California motel. Before Parsons' body — and consequently, his considerable estate — could be claimed by either his estranged wife or his stepfather, Parsons' faithful road manager, Phil Kaufman, and a cohort stole the body from LAX and drove it far out to the California desert w...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
88 mins