Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie

Name: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 10, 2010
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 56

2010

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Release Date: December 10, 2010

Summary: Beginning with Woodstock ‘99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin’ journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy’s own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array ofBeginning with Woodstock ‘99, director Michelle Esrick has spent ten years documenting the life of Wavy Gravy. Saint Misbehavin’ journeys from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one of a kind servant to humanity. The film blends Wavy’s own words with magical stories from an extraordinary array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown’s grin and the fool’s clothing.
In Saint Misbehavin’ Wavy is revealed more than the tie-dyed entertainer and ice-cream flavor namesake that often defines him in the popular imagination. Audiences will come to know the activist, the optimist, and the healer who reaches beyond political, economic, and cultural divisions in his commitment to social change and the alleviation of human suffering. Wavy’s life is his message, serving as deeply needed inspiration that we can change the world and have fun doing it. (Ripple Effect Films)… Expand

Director: Michelle Esrick

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 87 min

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Peter Hartlaub

Dec 10, 2010

Esrick spent 10 years on the film, and the result is a comprehensive portrait. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Dec 10, 2010

Make of it what you will: like its subject, Saint Misbehavin' is an unabashed love letter to the world that defies the cynicism of our age. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Dec 10, 2010

Not a particularly deep portrait of its iconoclastic subject, this loving documentary should be of interest to aging baby boomers with long memories. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Ray Greene

Dec 10, 2010

It's impossible to watch this movie without feeling that you're in the presence of a good and decent man. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Dec 10, 2010

Director Michelle Esrick, who followed Wavy around for 10 years, journeys from Manhattan to Woodstock to Nepal to the hills of California to tell Wavy's story. The journey is entertaining, whether you witnessed the 1960s firsthand or heard about it from your grandparents. Read full review

Gregg Rickman

Dec 10, 2010

Perhaps the fly-on-the-wall approach of Esrick's mentor (and this film's executive producer) D.A. Pennebaker would have been more revealing. Instead, we get just a mystery man in white. Read full review

David Fear

Dec 10, 2010

This Age-of-Aquarius relic's dedication to utopian ideals is great; this superficial portrait, however, is merely grating. Read full review

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Arnold_Ziffel

Dec 11, 2010

HEY!! That clown owes me TWENTY BUCKS for a great bag of Michuacan I fronted him in 1974! If you see him at the premier, tell him I need it ASap and to call me.

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