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Release Date: Jul 21, 2000
Running Time: 80 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Benjamin, Patti Smith, Tim Campion, Brian Halloran, Coleman Lewis, Bill Taft, Todd Butler, Will Fratesi
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A memorial to the self-destructive, hipster musician "Benjamin" Robert Dickerson. Known locally as the "Mouth of the South," Robert Dickerson, was a hard-living country boy, occasional drag queen and singer for a punk-country-blues band called Smoke, popular in Atlanta's 1970s punk scene,
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A look at the short life of a musical rebel. Story Robert "Benjamin" Dickerson, longtime figure on Atlanta's underground music scene, blended punk rock, country and blues as frontman for Smoke and other bands. Filmmakers Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen chronicle the last nine years of his life, from Smoke's emotionally charged performances and his work with idol Patti Smith to his 1999 death from AIDS. Acting Benjamin quietly commands attention in a series of intimate, poignant and remarkably open… 
February 25, 2003
This bittersweet documentary captures the passion and perversion of Robert Dickerson, a singer, bullshit artist and part-time drag queen known as Benjamin. In interviews and rehearsals shot in Atlanta, his hometown, Benjamin obsesses over Luke Perry's feet, sings Tom Waits-y songs with his band, Smoke, and slowly loses his battle with AIDS and hepatitis C. Smoke triumphantly score a gig opening for Patti Smith, who delivers the film's emotional climax with a heartfelt tribute to the cracked…
February 25, 2003
This bittersweet documentary captures the passion and perversion of Robert Dickerson, a singer, bullshit artist and part-time drag queen known as Benjamin. In interviews and rehearsals shot in Atlanta, his hometown, Benjamin obsesses over Luke Perry's feet, sings Tom Waits-y songs with his band, Smoke, and slowly loses his battle with AIDS and hepatitis C. Smoke triumphantly score a gig opening for Patti Smith, who delivers the film's emotional climax with a heartfelt tribute to the cracked…
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