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Song Sung Blue
A portrait of a Milwaukee-based duo Lighting & Thunder, a pair of celebrity impersonators dedicated to performing as Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline. The film follows the pair and their family from the high of performing with Pearl Jams' Eddie Vedder to the struggles of maintaining their careers in the face of disappointment, addiction, and freak accidents that threaten to take it all away.
Sponsors:
Film.com, KEXP 90.3 Seattle, RealNetworks
Cast & Crew
Director: Greg Kohs
Producer: Greg Kohs, Andrea Mihalik
Editor: Nick Kleczewski
Screenwriter: Greg Kohs
Cinematographer: Jimmy Sammarco, Greg Kohs
Music: Tony Dekker
Filmography: Debut Feature Film
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arr, May 29, 2008
By vivian hua
“the first half of this film is mighty slow and kind of boring but gets more interesting towards the middle. unfortunately, it gets more interesting because situations for the family spiral downwards. :[”
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The price of dreams, Jun 02, 2008
By Tim Callaghan
“I found this to be a very interesting slice of Americana- warts and all. Unwilling to put aside their farfetched dreams of working Vegas - this Milwaukee couple lives in a suburban limbo worthy of Crumb or John Waters. Like a 'Behind the Music' profile of a duo that never quite made it. Eddie”
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A documentary that really did not need to be made, Jun 08, 2008
By Dan Rosson
“I didn't like this too much. It was like along episode of Roseanne with less likeable characters and very little humor. These are definitely sad people, but I am not sure they deserve to have a movie made about them.”
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