Behind the Life of Chris Gaines (1999)
To promote the release of his album Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks appeared as Chris Gaines in a television "mockumentary," a version of VH1's seminal cable classic Behind the Music, featuring a totally made-up tale that just may be the greatest rock n' roll documentary ever made. This piece of art has everything that makes the story of being a rockstar fucking cool. It has childhood trauma, record label trauma, death, disfigurement, a plane crash, a car crash, sex addiction, redemption, a house fire, random unexplained commentary from Billy Joel, and more sex addiction.
- Released
- 1999-11-24
- Genres
- Documentary, Music
- Runtime
- 44 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Christopher Meindl, Michael McNamara
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines
- Brian Vaughn as Young Chris Gaines
- Linda Ljoka as Roma Stihl
- Anthony Meindl as Ryan Duffy
- Tom Ballatore as Dan Lanier
- Carolyn Seymour as Carolyn Johnns-Gaines
- Don Was as Self
- María Costa as Self
- Light Rand as Tasha Simon
- Melinda Newman as Self
- Ninette Terhart as Jennifer Allgood
- Joe Smith as Self
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