Overview
This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Frank Zappa
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Frank ZappaWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1987
- Original language
- English
Cast
- Don PrestonSelf (AKA Dom DeWilde) / Biff Debris / Uncle Meat
Frank ZappaSelf / The Imaginary Director- Phyllis Smith AltenhausSelf / Sheba Flieschman (as Phyllis Altenhaus)
- Dick BarberSelf
- Massimo BassoliAdult Minnesota Tishman
Rodney BingenheimerSelf- Jimmy Carl BlackSelf
- Aynsley DunbarSelf / Biff Junior
- Roy EstradaSelf
- Francesca FisherThe Countess
- Bunk GardnerSelf
- Buzz GardnerSelf
- Lowell GeorgeSelf
- Dick KuncSelf
- Manfred LerchSelf
- C. Mercedes LewisGirl Who Was A Sofa
- Sal LombardoSelf
Meredith MonkRed Face Girl- Billy MundiRollo
- Janet Neville-FergusonSelf / Market Clerk
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