Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Name: Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 7, 1997
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Bob Flanagan, Kathe Burkhart, Kirby Dick, Richard Kopelle, Rita Valencia

1997

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Haut et Court | Release Date: November 7, 1997 | Not Rated

Starring: Bob Flanagan, Kathe Burkhart, Kirby Dick, Richard Kopelle, Rita Valencia, Sarah Doucette, Sheree Rose

Summary: Documentary about writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan who died at 43 of cystic fibrosis. His life was indicated by pain from the beginning and he started to develop sadomasochistic practices, which he developed finally into performances.

Director: Kirby Dick

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Owen Gleiberman

If you see only one movie this year about a twisted, cuddly, courageous, fatally diseased, self-mutilating love slave, make sure that movie is Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Read full review

Scott Tobias

The film's greatest achievement is transforming his supposed acts of deviancy into disease-of-the-week uplift, not to mention a moving love story, an irreverent black comedy, and an intellectually compelling study of an artist at work. Read full review

Emanuel Levy

Undoubtedly the most wildly original and audacious documentary in this year's Sundance Film Festival, Kirby Dick's Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist is an uncompromising chronicle of the flamboyant poet and performance artist who died in 1996. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The most powerful and disturbing personal documentary since Crumb, Sick examines the life of the performance artist Bob Flanagan, who died of cystic fibrosis. [14 Nov 1997, p.E24]