Details

Release year: 2005

Storyline

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.

Top credits

Directors

Gus Van Sant

Writers

Gus Van Sant

Cast

Michael Pitt — Blake
Lukas Haas — Luke
Asia Argento — Asia
Scott Patrick Green — Scott

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Did you know

• Thadeus A. Thomas was a real Yellow Pages salesman who wandered onto the set one day and tried to sell the cast and crew ad space. Gus Van Sant was so intrigued by him he asked him to appear in the film.

• The song "Last Days" that Michael Pitt mumbles was written by Pitt himself.

• Gus Van Sant had originally intended to make a direct biopic of Kurt Cobain in the mid-1990's but Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, objected. Undeterred, Van Sant met with Love to discuss some ideas for the film, as well as her possible involvement. Though the two became friends and discussed the film for years, Van Sant eventually realized that Love was too devastated by Cobain's death to ever collaborate on the film or allow a biopic. He adapted his ideas into this fictionalized story.