Aim for the Roses

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Aim for the Roses

2016

1h 42m

Drama

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An audacious, glorious musical docudrama by John Bolton, inspired by the utterly amazing and completely ridiculous album by Mark Haney, inspired by the daredevil stunt to end all daredevil stunts by Ken Carter.

Leah Pickett

Chicago Reader

Sep 25, 2018

Bolton's confluence of highbrow and lowbrow elements is inelegant at times, but also the basis of this film's untidy appeal.

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Frederick Blichert

The Tyee (British Columbia)

Feb 13, 2022

There is a poetic absurdity at the heart of John Boltons new musical docudrama that is nicely summed up by its title, Aim for the Roses: it implies something beautiful and delicate, but the reality is wilder and more dangerous.

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Pat Mullen

POV Magazine

Jul 5, 2019

Comparisons to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing are both inevitable and warranted for the film's ingeniously playful approach to documentary form, but there has never been a doc quite like Aim for the Roses.

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Jorge Ignacio Castillo

The Canadian Crew

Dec 11, 2018

3/5

A tale so bizarre it can only be true, Aim for the Roses tells the story of two men with a soft spot for gonzo spectacle.

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Chris Knight

National Post

Mar 4, 2018

3.5/4

Director John Bolton splits him time in this documentary between the story of Carter's big jump and the tale of the Haney's opus. Each story is fascinating in its own way.

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An audacious, glorious musical docudrama by John Bolton, inspired by the utterly amazing and completely ridiculous album by Mark Haney, inspired by the daredevil stunt to end all daredevil stunts by Ken Carter.

Director: John Bolton
Producer: John Bolton, Naomi Mark
Screenwriter: John Bolton, Brendan Woollard
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 42m

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