Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)
93%RT Audience Score: 85%
Awards & Nominations: 2 wins & 2 nominations
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is an entertaining, heartwarming, and balanced documentary about the influential Los Angeles band.
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” is a rockumentary that will make you want to start a band, even if you have no musical talent. With interviews from band members, friends, and fellow musicians, this film tells the story of Fishbone’s rise to fame and the struggles they faced along the way. The animation sequences add a fun touch to the documentary, making it a unique and entertaining watch. Even if you’ve never heard of Fishbone before, this film will leave you feeling inspired and ready to rock out.
Production Company(ies)
Studio Chizu Book Walker Dentsu
Distributor
Cinema Guild
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
2011
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:NA
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Runtime:1h 47m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2011 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 21, 2012
Genre(s)
Documentary/Music
Keyword(s)
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Angelo Moore – Self
Chris Dowd – Self
Walter A. Kibby – Self
Kendall Jones – Self
Phillip Fisher – Self
Lev Anderson – Director, Producer, Writer
Chris Metzler – Director, Producer, Writer
Laurence Fishburne – Narrator
Director(s)
Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Writer(s)
Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Producer(s)
Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 2 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (48) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (48)
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, its in-depth interviews with band members, friends and fellow musicians from the punk/ska scene of the late 1980’s make it so you don’t have to be a fan of Fishbone to be enthralled by their story.
December 6, 2019 | Rating: A-
Danielle Johnsen
indieWire
TOP CRITIC
It’s a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now.
January 10, 2012 | Rating: 3/4
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
It’s a movie about what it’s like to almost make it in the music business, but not really, not quite. It’s about coming close and watching it slip away.
January 5, 2012 | Rating: 3/4
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
What makes this better than the usual Behind the Music-style doc is the frankness of its subjects and the fun way the filmmakers intersperse Fat Albert-style animation to tell their story.
December 16, 2011 | Rating: 3/4
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
TOP CRITIC
Even as a hagiography, though, it’s pretty interesting.
December 16, 2011
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
[It] isn’t the happiest movie about a band you’ll ever see, but it is one of the more entertaining, and thanks to directors Lev Anderson and Christ Metzler, one of the most original.
November 17, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
TOP CRITIC
A documentary with some familiar shades, “Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone” is about what happens to band members after the music stops.
June 23, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Christopher Lloyd
The Film Yap
While most of the world passed them by, Fishbone now lives on in celluloid form thanks to this spirited and admiring documentary.
August 6, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row
New material is well blended with footage of the band in its prime, and even with a little too much of the latter-day psychodrama, this music-rich film ends on a high note.
April 16, 2018
Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight
A fascinating, sometimes achingly depressing ride through the potential glories and everyday indignities of a life struggling with the music business.
April 16, 2018
Joe Gross
Austin American-Statesman
A must see for Fishbone fans.
March 9, 2012 | Rating: B
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
To hear the soaring craziness of Fishbone’s “Sunless Saturday” is to wonder how such musical inspiration could possibly miss.
December 16, 2011
Robert Horton
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)…
Plot
From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan’s America, Fishbone rose and became one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and the political order of the music industry and of the nation. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The documentary is narrated by Laurence Fishburne.
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