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Press Quotes:
“Truly suspenseful... terribly funny... Rock Opera puts "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas" to shame" - San Francisco Weekly
"Genuinely Warped... Scathingly hilarious" - The Austin Chronicle
"Rock Opera is damn funny" - The Seattle Stranger
"Rife with rocking energy.. a hell of a time" - New Times LA
"I love Rock Opera"
- Steve Bloom - High Times Magazine
"**** (4 Stars) A Good ole ass kicking rock and roll spectacle" - Film Threat
“I like Rock Opera a lot. If every pot user out there goes to see Rock Opera, I think you’ll have a hit on your hands.”
- Richard Linklater, director of Slacker, Dazed & Confused, Waking Life
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Plot Outline:
From Austin, “The Live Music Capital of the World” Texas comes Rock Opera, a hilariously raucous and seedy tale of drug fueled rock and roll debauchery. Rock Opera sets a fictional tale of double crossing drug deals in Austin’s real life underground music and drug scene.
Filled with great Austin bands and local scenesters, the story unfolds with Toe’s half-assed attempts to fund a road trip for his band PigPoke by selling marijuana. Rock Opera was written and directed by Austin filmmaker and musician Bob Ray and according to Bob is “a true story that could have happened.”
Rock Opera starts off as a rambunctious stoner comedy and turns into a tense and action packed thriller as we follow Toe’s exploits through ramshackle houses, punk dives and backwater towns as he frantically scrambles to get his band on the road. A series of mishaps and dim-witted double crosses puts Toe in peril and he struggles to keep his head above bong water as chaos chases him to the frenzied climax.
Rock Opera features live performances by
Nashville Pussy, Fuckemos, PigPoke, and Witchbanger, plus the music of Butthole Surfers, Fuckemos, Ed Hall, Cherubs, Phantom Creeps, El Flaco, Honky, Tallboy, Los Pinkeys, Titz, The Crack Pipes, Antebellum, Voltage, Squat Thrust, Pong, El Insecto, and an original score by 16 Deluxe.
Tons of extra stuff including:
• Bonus footage and deleted scenes
• Nashville Pussy video for “Fried Chicken and Coffee”
• Short film “Texans In Space”
• Drunks, some funny, some not
And much much more
Cast Overview :
Jarrell - Ned
Chad Holt - Tad
Paul Wright - Jarvis
Luis Olmeda - Paco
Rob Gasper - Lupe
Mike Guihan - Mic
Bob Ray - Bo
Travis Lacy - Trav
Kurtis D. Machler - Burtis
Dylan Grifith - Chicken
Steve Gurvich - Stu
Russell Porter - Ross
Alycia Howell - Fine Ass
Corri Mava Hubbard - Corky
Further Information:
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 87 Minutes
Directed by Bob Ray
Release: GOK-DV-021
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Rock Opera 
