Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth engineered a shift in mid-20th-century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent--"Rat Fink." The subject of Tom Wolfe's essay "The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby," Ed Roth helped fuel the "Kustom Kulture"/hot rod movement of the 1960s in Southern California. Hot rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined artform where aesthetics were equally important.
Production Sphinx Productions [ca];
Cast Names Arthur E. Cooper; Andrew Cormack; Stephen Cormack; Evan Dalgleish; Jeffrey Hillinger; Oliver Mann; Bengt Mikaelsson; Jack (XV) Miller; Jim Payne; George Ruiz; Lee Sheppard; Mike Shundo; Ricky B. Stecyk; Janet Blake; Kate Boothman; Alodiah Lunar; John Goodman; Ted Rosnick; Alex Xydias; Paul Le Mat; Ann-Margret; Dick Smothers; Tom Smothers; Steve Austin; Jay Leno; Bill Weinstein; Marilyn Weinstein; Robert (XXI) Williams; Billy Gibbons; Tom Wolfe;
Release Date 2006-03-11 (South by Southwest Film Festival) 2006-10-06 (New York City, New York) 2006-10-13 (Los Angeles, California)