The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Director: Jeff Feuerzeig

Cast: Louis Black, Bill Johnston, Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Jeff Tartakov

(Sony Pictures Classics, 2005) Rated: PG-13

US DVD release date: 19 September 2006 (Sony Picture Classics)

[25 September 2006]

by Jake Meaney

Johnston, with his outsized continuously overflowing personality, coupled with the sheer mass of his output, seems to exert a strong gravitational pull, luring everything into his own orbit, making it his own.

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