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Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

30/06/2012 (FI)Music, Documentary1h 25m
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Overview

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Stephen Segerman

      Stephen Segerman

      Self

    2. Rodriguez

      Rodriguez

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    3. Regan Rodriguez

      Regan Rodriguez

      Self

    4. Eva Rodriguez

      Eva Rodriguez

      Self

    5. Mike Theodore

      Self

    6. Dennis Coffey

      Dennis Coffey

      Self

    7. Sandra Rodriguez-Kennedy

      Sandra Rodriguez-Kennedy

      Self

    8. Clarence Avant

      Clarence Avant

      Self

    9. Steve Rowland

      Steve Rowland

      Self

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Mar 14, 2024

    This is quite a curious documentary that at times made me wonder if the whole story was an hoax. It's all about Sixto Rodriguez who made a couple of albums in the early 1970s that had some critical acclaim but didn't track at all with the audience. Well not in the USA, they didn't. In South Africa it was rumoured that they shifted almost half a million copies before the singer was reputed to have set himself on fire - live on stage! Now this was long before there would have been any coverage and it seems the story became apocryphal - people claiming to have seen what they didn't. They didn't b...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$1,000,000.00

    Revenue$3,696,196.00

    Keywords

    • musician
    • 1970s
    • mayor
    • south africa
    • icon
    • based on true story
    • music business
    • election
    • detroit, michigan
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    • city council
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