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Trailer
Zappa
7.4
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2h 9m
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2020
Overview
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
Cast
![Frank Zappa pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FgkuOsRbowspoXVlLJXLc0z8wlZh.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
![Mike Keneally pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FpenyHJ2h9jOZRNcY60ETfRS0L5P.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Mike Keneally
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
![Pamela Des Barres pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Pamela Des Barres
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
![Lonnie Lardner pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
![Patrice Zappa pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Patrice Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
![Rose Zappa pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Rose Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
![Francis Zappa pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Francis Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
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Edgard Varèse
Self (archive footage)
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Don Van Vliet
Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
![The Mothers of Invention pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
The Mothers of Invention
Themselves (archive footage)
![Johnny Guitar Watson pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self (archive footage)
![Pamela Zarubica pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Pamela Zarubica
Self - Zappa's Roommate
![Carlo Zappavigna pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Carlo Zappavigna
Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)
![Bunk Gardner pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Bunk Gardner
Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969
![Ian Underwood pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
Ian Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
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