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Derailroaded: Inside the Mind of Larry "Wild Man" Fischer

Josh Rubin, Director

2005 | 86 |

In the 1960s, rocker Frank Zappa discovered a singer-songwriter performing made-up songs on the streets of Los Angeles. Zappa contracted Larry "Wild Man" Fischer to record an album for his music label. Soon Fischer — later discovered to be bipolar and a paranoid schizophrenic — became a minor star of the West Coast music scene. Josh Rubin's sympathetic and touching documentary portrait presents Fischer's life story and celebrates his art, while never shying away from the troubled and tragic aspects of his colorful biography.