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Crumb

Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about noted underground comic artist R. Crumb and his family. Directed by Terry Zwigoff, it won widespread acclaim, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

The tagline for the movie is "Weird Sex, Obsession, Comic Books"; and while the movie is certainly full of all three, Crumb is a surprisingly moving story of several peculiar members of the Crumb family trying to get by in the world. We meet Robert Crumb's brothers, Maxon and Charles, and hear a bit of their story and why they are the way they are.