Hey, hey, it's the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema's most surreal sixties odysseys. The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV-bred supergroup's big-screen career. In it, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork become trapped in a kaleidoscopic satire that's movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once. A constantly looping, self-referential spoof that was ahead of its time, Head escaped commercial success on its release but has since been reclaimed as one of the great cult objects of its era.
Supplements
Audio commentary featuring Monkees Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork
New video interview with director Bob Rafelson
New documentary about BBS, featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley
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