Steve Earle: Just An American Boy

Singer-songwriter Steve Earle is a documentary filmmaker's dream come true. He's not only an articulate raconteur and a strikingly versatile artist whose music has earned him a devoted following among both fans and critics, but thanks to his honest, uncompromising lyrics he's been both hailed as a plain-spoken, latter-day Woody Guthrie and condemned as a dangerously unpatriotic dissident. Throw in a personal bio that reads like something out of a Jim Thompson novel — there's drinking, drugging, hard time and five failed marriages — and how can you lose? Ask New York-based filmmaker Amos Poe, who badly botches this profile of the artist with a sloppy structu...