Rockets Redglare!

Rockets Redglare! — Plot

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his death in 2001. Rockets was the sometimes bodyguard/drug dealer of Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, as well as a talented stand-up comic and character actor who left his indelible mark wherever he went. This film chronicles Rockets' last days, hunting for methadone in Puerto Rico and telling stories from his past.

• Release date
• May 2, 2003
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Luis Fernandez de la Reguera

Rockets Redglare! — Cast

Rockets Redglare Self Willem Dafoe Self Jim Jarmusch Self Steve Buscemi Self Matt Dillon Self Julian Schnabel Self Alexandre Rockwell Self Molly Griffith Self