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Hit So Hard

“The generation that picked me or Kurt Kobain as their spokesmen must have been a completely fucked-up generation”. These words, by Pearl Jam’s frontman and composer, Eddie Vedder, make up the perfect tagline for this musical biography, which may focus on Patty Schemel, Hole’s gay drummer, but manages to capture the smell of the famous teen spirit, along with the pulse of an entire era. Unreleased footage shot by Schemel herself sees the light of day and includes tours, backstage, concerts and super-rare archival material from the 6 months that Schemel lived with Courtney Love, Kobain and their little daughter. From the end of the 80s, the explosion of grunge in Seattle and Patty’s near-hiring by Nirvana, to the rock star dream lived with Hole and the ups and downs in rehab, “Hit so hard” is the testimony of a woman that plunged into the turmoil of fame, drugs and alcohol but managed to emerge to tell her story.


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Director: P. David Ebersole

Screenwriter: P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes

DoP: Stephen Roullier, Starr Scesniak

Music: Roddy Bottum

Editor: P. David Ebersole

Featuring: Patty Schemel, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Eric Erlandson, Courtney Love Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Roddy Bottum

Country: USA

Year: 2011

Running Time: 101’

Language: English



    Publication date: 2011-09-04 20:52:27