“THE OTHER F WORD” My rating: B- (Opening Nov. 18 at the Screenland Crossroads)
98 minutes | No MPAA rating
The whole punk movement was about giving the finger to the Establishment, about spreading political, musical and social anarchy, about just not giving a damn.
So what happens when hard-core punkers become parents?
That’s the intriguing question posed by Andrea Blaugrun Nevins’ “The Other F Word,” a documentary that allows a dozen or so punk rockers to comment on their lives as fathers.
The film’s subjects — like Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duane Peters of U.S. Bombs, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid and especially Jim Lindberg of Pennywise — remain working musicians. They tour, they sing angry songs, they rant and spit from the stage.
But all describe a profound change brought on by having their own children.
“Nothing in the punk rock ethos prepares you for parenthood,” one observes.
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