Hello! My Name is Blotto: The Movie (2025)
• May 2nd, 2025 • 1h 45min
Documentary, Music
Overview
Scrappy documentary about a band that flew too close to the sun to make it really big. Albany, NY's Blotto rose from the ashes of the Star-Spangled Washboard Band and scored an unlikely hit with I Wanna Be A Lifeguard in the early 80's thanks in part to getting airplay on MTV when the network launched August 1, 1981. The film follows their struggles to land a major label deal despite huge success with touring and releasing their own EPs and Albums. First-time director Rob Lichter (aka Bert Blotto) puts together a funny, heart-felt portrait of the musical pranksters that is sometimes heartbreaking despite all the laughs.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Madonna: Queen of Pop
Released on: 2007-10-22
Documentary
In January 2011, ARTE viewers voted for the 'Queens of Pop'. 8 pop queens were chosen from 50 propos...
Jennifer Lopez | Tidal X Brooklyn
Released on: 2017-10-17
Music, Documentary
Performances from TIDAL's annual benefit concert in Brooklyn. DVD. Jennifer Lopez TIDAL Barclays Cen...
Tricky & Marta: Ground Control
Released on: 2023-01-16
Music
Tricky, a pioneer of the trip-hop movement, is joined by Marta, a Polish-born singer, for a live per...
Complex 20110730 - Toyko Dome
Released on: 2012-07-30
Music
Under the banner of the "Japanese mind" for the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster area reconstruc...
Zamdane, une histoire de la vraie vie
Released on: 2025-05-21
Documentary, Music
For one year, Grünt’s cameras followed rapper Zamdane. The documentary reveals moments from his dail...
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Released on: 2015-02-05
Documentary, Music
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and...
Teaches of Peaches
Released on: 2024-05-09
Documentary, Music
Peaches - artist, feminist, rock star. She has been challenging gender stereotypes for over 20 years...
D R E A M S I C L E: The Interview
Released on: 2025-05-07
Music, Documentary
Maren Morris invite us to witness a therapy session where she discuss details of her new album, D R ...
The Girl Can't Help It
Released on: 1956-12-22
Comedy, Music
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...
Television Without Frontiers
Released on: 2019-04-25
Documentary
Television Without Frontiers centers around a 1982 project titled "Eurikon", originally an attempt t...
Jermaine Jackson : the Jackson Musical
Released on: 2013-09-01
Music, Documentary
YOU ARE NOT ALONE, the Musical was performed in Paris (in English) by Jermaine Jackson. During this ...
Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos
Released on: 1983-11-07
Documentary
A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, ...
Homicide Hunter: The Man with No Face
Released on: 2023-03-08
Crime, Documentary
Joe Kenda's investigation into the brutal rape and murder of 24 year old wife and mother Mary Lynn V...
Locked In
Released on: 2020-03-21
Drama, Music
A young artist struggles to find purpose after his plans seemingly screech to a halt.
The Last Hot Lick
Released on: 2017-11-11
Drama, Music
The story of Jack Willits (portrayed by Jamie Leopold), former bass player for Dan Hicks and Hot Lic...
UltraFlash! The Dancemusic Video
Released on: 1983-01-01
Music
An exciting dance/video program inspired by the hit film "Flashdance" is performed to some of the da...
Swallowtail Butterfly
Released on: 1996-09-14
Drama, Crime, Music, Science Fiction
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
RY X - Live at the Roundhouse with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Released on: 2024-08-09
Music
Ry X performs live at the Roundhouse with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution
Released on: 2023-12-16
Documentary, Music
From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...