Zappa

Zappa

Music Documentary

Storyline: 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.

Release Date: 2020-11-27

Original Language: en

Original Title: Zappa

Status: Released

Runtime: 129 minutes

TagLine: Save the Vault. Tell the Story.

Rating: (57 votes)

Budget: $1,126,036

Revenue: $0

Production Companies: Trouper Productions, Zipper Bros Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, BFI, Magnolia Pictures

Spoken Languages: English

View On: TMDb | IMDb

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Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa (Self (archive footage))

8.80%

Mike Keneally

Mike Keneally (Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988)

1.27%

Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres (Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs)

6.70%

Lonnie Lardner

Lonnie Lardner (Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage))

1.00%

Patrice Zappa

Patrice Zappa (Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage))

1.00%

Rose Zappa

Rose Zappa (Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage))

1.00%

Francis Zappa

Francis Zappa (Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage))

1.00%

Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varèse (Self (archive footage))

2.04%

Don Van Vliet

Don Van Vliet (Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart))

2.19%

The Mothers of Invention

The Mothers of Invention (Themselves (archive footage))

1.00%

Johnny Guitar Watson

Johnny Guitar Watson (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Pamela Zarubica

Pamela Zarubica (Self - Zappa's Roommate)

1.00%

Carlo Zappavigna

Carlo Zappavigna (Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage))

1.00%

Bunk Gardner

Bunk Gardner (Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969)

1.42%

Ian Underwood

Ian Underwood (Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975)

3.07%

Ruth Underwood

Ruth Underwood (Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976)

1.00%

Gail Zappa

Gail Zappa (Self - Frank Zappa's Wife)

1.37%

Tom Wilson

Tom Wilson (Self - Music Producer (archive footage))

1.00%

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood (Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage))

1.00%

Roy Estrada

Roy Estrada (Self - Bass (archive footage))

1.00%

Ray Collins

Ray Collins (Self - Vocal (archive footage))

1.00%

Don Preston

Don Preston (Self - Keyboards (archive footage))

5.95%

Jimmy Carl Black

Jimmy Carl Black (Self - Drums (archive footage))

2.00%

Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Arthur Dyer Tripp III (Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp))

1.00%

Cal Schenkel (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix (Self (archive footage))

10.38%

Moon Unit Zappa

Moon Unit Zappa (Self (archive footage))

6.22%

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan (Self (archive footage))

22.30%

Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan (Self (archive footage))

8.95%

David Bowie

David Bowie (Self (archive footage))

22.43%

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger (Self (archive footage))

19.41%

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa (Self (archive footage))

10.92%

Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (Self (archive footage))

13.62%

Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan (Self (archive footage))

3.13%

Mark Volman

Mark Volman (Self (archive footage))

2.12%

Aynsley Dunbar

Aynsley Dunbar (Self - Drums (archive footage))

2.21%

Jeff Simmons

Jeff Simmons (Self - Bass (archive footage))

1.00%

George Duke

George Duke (Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage))

5.72%

Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (Self (archive footage))

8.77%

John Lennon

John Lennon (Self (archive footage))

9.67%

Jerry D. Good

Jerry D. Good (Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good))

1.00%

Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr (Self (archive footage))

20.71%

Steve Vai

Steve Vai (Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982)

4.69%

Ike Willis

Ike Willis (Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage))

1.00%

Bruce Bickford

Bruce Bickford (Self - Animator)

1.00%

Tom Fowler

Tom Fowler (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Napoleon Murphy Brock

Napoleon Murphy Brock (Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock))

3.60%

Ralph Humphrey

Ralph Humphrey (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Chester Thompson

Chester Thompson (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Bruce Fowler

Bruce Fowler (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Peter Wolf

Peter Wolf (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Terry Bozzio

Terry Bozzio (Self (archive footage))

1.45%

Tommy Mars

Tommy Mars (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew (Self (archive footage))

2.32%

Scott Thunes

Scott Thunes (Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988)

1.00%

Joe Travers

Joe Travers (Self)

1.00%

John Belushi

John Belushi (Self (archive footage))

43.41%

Ray White

Ray White (Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984)

1.00%

Arthur Barrow

Arthur Barrow (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Vinnie Colaiuta

Vinnie Colaiuta (Self (archive footage))

3.78%

Diva Zappa

Diva Zappa (Self (archive footage))

2.27%

Sandi Freeman

Sandi Freeman (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Mike Douglas

Mike Douglas (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Norman Seeff

Norman Seeff (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

David Harrington

David Harrington (Self)

1.00%

Robin Denselow

Robin Denselow (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Kent Nagano

Kent Nagano (Self (archive footage))

1.92%

David Letterman

David Letterman (Self (archive footage))

21.50%

Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet Zappa (Self (archive footage))

2.21%

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez (Self (archive footage))

3.22%

David Raksin

David Raksin (Self (archive footage))

14.03%

Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel (Self (archive footage))

5.61%

Susan Baker

Susan Baker (Self - PMRC Member (archive footage))

1.00%

Arsenio Hall

Arsenio Hall (Self (archive footage))

35.35%

Gary Iskowitz

Gary Iskowitz (Self (voice))

1.00%

David Dondorf

David Dondorf (Self - Music Engineer (voice))

1.00%

Kathleen Sullivan

Kathleen Sullivan (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Václav Havel

Václav Havel (Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage))

2.32%

Jamie Gangel

Jamie Gangel (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Ensemble Modern

Ensemble Modern (Themselves (archive footage))

1.00%

Arthur Brown

Arthur Brown (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Adam Curry

Adam Curry (Self)

1.00%

Hank Dutt

Hank Dutt (Self)

1.00%

Buzz Gardner

Buzz Gardner (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Al Gore

Al Gore (Self (archive footage))

17.34%

Tipper Gore

Tipper Gore (Self (archive footage))

1.09%

David Harrington

David Harrington (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Brian Jones

Brian Jones (Self (archive footage))

8.59%

John Lofton

John Lofton (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

Miss Mercy

Miss Mercy (Self (archive footage))

1.00%

John Sherba

John Sherba (Self)

1.00%

Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman (Self (archive footage))

6.64%

Sunny Yang

Sunny Yang (Self)

1.00%

Charles Manson

Charles Manson (Self (archive footage))

11.38%

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