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Genres:
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Documentary /
Music
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Director:
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Sacha Gervasi
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Actors:
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Lemmy,
Lars Ulrich,
Slash
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)108
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Plot Summary:
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At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their merge, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal, " influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax, in spite of on no occasion hitting the big occasion. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, traditional off to their 13th album in one pattern attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A fly-on-the-wall doc about some has-been Canadian metal band called Anvil? Thats got to be a piss-take?...
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Unless you were a regular reader of heavy metal magazine 'Kerrang!' in the early 1980s you've probably never heard of Anvil, which, 25 years after their heyday, would put you firmly in the majority. To recap, Anvil were a briefly feted Canadian four-piece whose frontman Lips played his guitar with a dildo while grinding out songs called 'Metal On Metal' and 'March Of The Crabs'. For a while it looked as if they might take their place alongside Metallica and Slayer in the pantheon of metal gods. Then something happened - or rather, it didn't. Anvil made three well-received albums. Then they made nine more. But outside a dwindling fanbase in their native Toronto, the world was no longer listening. Director and fan Sacha Gervasi, who worked for the band as a road...
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