Review of American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) by Ian Buckwalter for NPR — 06 Apr 2011
There's a great deal of promise and potential in the idea of a documentary study of Hicks. Unfortunately, American falls short of anything beyond the ordinary. Part of the problem is the difficulty in resisting the temptation to squeeze the comic's story into the familiar confines of a VH1 Behind the Music-style template.
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This review of American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) was written by Ian Buckwalter and published by NPR on 06 Apr 2011.
American: The Bill Hicks Story has generally received positive reviews.
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