Crumb
An intimate portrait of the controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb who played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix, and his traumatized family.
1948, New York City, New York, USA
2 November 1951, Seattle, Washington, USA
2 March 1940, Buffalo, New York, USA
27 September 1981, Woodland, California, USA
30 August 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 July 1938, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1944, New York, USA
22 November 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
May 06, 2006
Sporadically intriguing but ultimately overrated...
October 14, 2010
Crumb may be rough around the edges, even occasionally tedious, but what Zwigoff manages to uncover is honest, captivating and strangely visceral.
July 01, 2010
Among the all-time great American documentaries.
May 05, 2006
Zwigoff's biography of Crumb is both absorbing and repellent, and it may be one of the best documentaries to make the connection between creativity and craziness.
March 11, 2008
interesting
January 01, 2000
Crumb's sense of humor is his saving personal grace and the movie's insurance policy against total immersion into the morbid. But just so you know, Crumb fully earns its most revealing screen credit: 'David Lynch Presents.'
August 11, 2010
(An) offbeat and often uncomfortably revealing portrait of the legendary underground comic book artist Robert Crumb and his brothers, Maxon and Charles...
June 06, 2006
This brilliant docu is not just a portrait of a compulsive artist, but also a deep inquiry into the mysteries of art, creativity, mental illness and family bind.
March 03, 2005
Unique, profound, and fairly disturbing.
August 07, 2010
Filled with haunting images, only a few of which are created by the hand of R. Crumb.
October 27, 2005
Geek coolness abounds.
August 10, 2010
an absolutely disarming documentary and one of the very best of its kind
