Movie

Rockets Redglare! (2003)

• May 2, 2003
• 1h 29m

• Documentary

Overview

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.

Director

Luis Fernandez de la Reguera

Starring

Rockets Redglare, Willem Dafoe, Jim Jarmusch