Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013)

4.8/10 • 82 min • Documentary

Overview

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.

Cast

James Broughton

Diana Dors

George Kuchar

Armistead Maupin

Self

Pauline Kael

Davey Havok

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