Without Getting Killed or Caught
“Townes is her soul. Guy is her heart.”
Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty, struggling to establish himself as the Dylan Thomas of American music, while Susanna pens hit songs and paints album covers for top artists, and Townes spirals in self-destruction after writing some of Americana music’s most enduring and influential ballads.
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Cast
11 people
Guy Clark
Self (archive footage)
Also in
OK Buckaroos
Guy Clark: Live from Austin, TX
Susanna Clark
Self (archive footage)
Townes Van Zandt
Self (archive footage)
Rodney Crowell
Self
Also in
All Happy Families
The Johnny Cash Music Festival
Steve Earle
Self
Known for
The Wire
The World Made Straight
Terry Allen
Self
Also in
Killers of the Flower Moon
Amerasia
Sissy Spacek
Narrator / Voice of Susanna Clark (voice)
Known for
Carrie
Castle Rock
Jo Harvey Allen
Self
Known for
Fried Green Tomatoes
True Stories
Vince Gill
Self
Also in
Maverick
Saving Faith
Verlon Thompson
Self
Barry Poss
Self - Sugar Hill Records Founder
Tamara Saviano Director · Paul Whitfield Director Bart Knaggs Writer
United States release July 23, 2021 · Produced in United States
Production
Slow Uvalde Films
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 18, 2021
Digital · South by Southwest Film Festival Online
United States · July 23, 2021
Limited theatrical · Austin (TX) Film Society
United States
August 27, 2021 · Limited theatrical · Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
November 6, 2021 · Digital · VOD
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