We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment Movie 2023, Official Trailer, Release Date, HD Poster & Cast Name
Genre: Documentary, Music
Language: English
Director: Daniel Fetherston, Danny Szlauderbach
Release date:
Cast Name: Kim Seon-ho, Cha Seung-won, Kim Kang-woo, Go Ara, Kang Tae-joo
Where to Watch: Nearby Theaters
We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment Movie 2023, Official Trailer
Surrounded by wheat fields, cowboys, and cars, four bespectacled misfits in Kansas Bill Goffrier, Brent Giessmann, John Nichols, and Ron Klaus — grabbed instruments and blasted out “a ravenous strain of rock ‘n’ roll” as tuneful, brainy, and enthralling as anything coming from the coasts. They worshipped the Stooges and witnessed the Sex Pistols bring punk to the Great Plains, igniting within them an uncontrolled prairie fire to do it themselves. As the Embarrassment, they threw a house-wrecking party and invited “a thousand loving friends” into their secret world of “weirdo new wave freaks” in Wichita and beyond. They played Chicago, D.C., and New York, drawing the attention of influential figures like Allen Ginsberg, John Cale, and Jonathan Demme but their independence and refusal to sell out sparked tension within the group and kept mainstream success at bay. Through original interviews, restored concert footage, and appearances by fans including Evan Dando, Freedy Johnston, Grant Hart, and Thomas Frank, this documentary shows how the Embarrassment rose out of nowhere to become a post-punk legend that’s almost been forgotten — until now.
