My Dinner With Jimi | |
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If you can remember it, then you weren't there. |
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Directed by | Bill Fishman |
Produced by | Harold Bronson |
Written by | Howard Kaylan |
Starring | Justin Henry Royale Watkins |
Distributed by | Rhino Films Fallout Entertainment |
Release date(s) | 2003 |
Running time | 90 mins |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
My Dinner with Jimi is a 2003 autobiographical film written by Howard Kaylan, dealing with events in 1966-67 which led up to the night in 1967 when Kaylan (and The Turtles) encountered The Beatles in London, England. The film is currently available on home video in Germany, and was given an extremely limited theatrical release in Toronto in late September 2007.
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“ | It's an absolutely true story," Kaylan said. "It was our first trip to London, and we met Graham Nash, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles—who played us Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band before it was released—all on the same night! I wound up eating dinner with Hendrix at 4 a.m. and getting violently ill and puking all over his red velvet suit![1] | ” |
My Dinner with Jimi received the best screenplay award at the 2003 Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was well-received when it was shown as part of the Santa Monica Film Festival.
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