Dreams With Sharp Teeth

For more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has been a singular voice in American literature. Too often marginalized as an author of genre fiction (Ellison prefers the term "speculative fiction") or influential, award-winning scripts for "The Outer Limits" and "Star Trek," Ellison sits for a revealing cinematic portrait in Erik Nelson's entertaining documentary. The notoriously combative, motor-mouthed Ellison appears in clips spanning a quarter century. Also featuring Robin Williams, who describes his friend as "a skin graft on a leper."