Completed - ENGLISH - Documentary - 90 minutes
Without Getting Killed or Caught is the true story of Guy Clark, who struggles to write poetic, while balancing a complicated marriage with wife Susanna, and a deep friendship with Townes Van Zandt, on whom Susanna forged a passionate dependence.
Year of production : 2024 Director(s) : Tamara SAVIANO, Paul WHITFIELD Cast : Sissy SPACEK, Guy CLARK, Townes VAN ZANDT, Susanna CLARK, Rodney CROWELL
This 90-minute documentary follows Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty, struggling to establish himself as the Dylan Thomas of American music, while Susanna pens hit songs and paints album covers for top artists, and Townes spirals in self-destruction after writing some of Americana music’s most enduring and influential ballads. Based on the diaries of Susanna Clark and Saviano’s 2016 book Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark, the film tells the saga from Susanna’s point of view, with Academy Award-winner Sissy Spacek voicing Susanna’s narration.
Country(ies) : USA