Movie

2018 Documentary
1h 47min
Original title | The King |
Country | Germany/USA |
R
Set against the 2016 presidential election, the film takes a musical road trip across America in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce. The mission, forty years after the singer's death, is to find the country he left behind -- a nation that, like Elvis, started out young, beautiful, and promising, yet succumbed over time to the corrosive influences of addiction, money, and power. The movie paints a cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation's history. It explores, through music and verité, how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a "King," while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.
Directed by | Eugene Jarecki |
Written by | Eugene Jarecki, Christopher St. John |
Company | OscilloscopeOscilloscopeOscilloscope |
Featuring
Alec Baldwin
Ethan Hawke
Ashton Kutcher
Mike Myers
James Carville
Lana Del Rey
Emi Sunshine & The Rain
Tony Brown
Maggie Clifford
Radney Foster
Patricia Gaines
Mary Gauthier
Emmylou Harris
John Hiatt
George Klein
Greil Marcus
Justin Merrick
Dale Rushing
Jerry Schilling
Earlice Taylor
Immortal Technique
Linda Thompson
M. Ward
Leo Bud Welch
Kat Wright
Video
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