"For anyone who cares about where this country has been and where it's headed." - TIME. Acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki ('WHY WE FIGHT') compares the state of our nation to rock icon Elvis Presley's rise and demise – and asks where we all went wrong. "Few directors have Jarecki's skill for pulling a massive stack of disparate themes - race, celebrity, power, wealth, drug addiction, poverty, militarism - into one coherent narrative." - Austin Chronicle
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new film takes the King's 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American Dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and non, join the journey.
"A fever dream of American glory and American weirdness." - Boston Globe
"A hunk-a, hunk-a burning zeitgeist, the kind of movie that just might shake you from your sleep at night weeks later." - NPR
"A fitting film to have Errol Morris, Steven Soderbergh and Roseanne Cash as executive producers: a slippery discourse about music, meaning and moment seen through the figure of one of the great tricksters of 'strange old America.'" - Newcity
"By the end we’re looking at Elvis, America and ourselves with new eyes and wondering, once again, if the truth really can set us free." - Rolling Stone
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