Better Than Something: Jay Reatard (movie)
- User score: 5.1
- Production country: US
- Producer: Alex Hammond , Ian Markiewicz
- Genre: Documentary, Music
- Release date: 3/2/2012
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie description
BETTER THAN SOMETHING is an exciting and intimate portrait of Memphis-based punk musician Jay Reatard, who toured the world and released dozens of records over the course of a 15 year career that began in his mid-teens. Original and never-before-seen footage documents his self-made journey to iconic garage rock star, with colleagues, friends, and family speaking candidly about Jay's vibrant and complicated life. Jay Reatard himself - filmed just nine months before his untimely death at the age of twenty-nine - shares his experiences both on and off stage, with all the humor, savvy, and pathos one can expect from such a prolific and vital artist.