Tales of the Rat Fink
Directed by Ron Mann
2006Documentary78 minCanada
Ron Mann's largely animated portrait of hot-rod artist Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth, creator of Rat Fink, voiced by John Goodman, Ann-Margret and Brian Wilson.
Synopsis
From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL and GRASS comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent — "Rat Fink".
Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, Theo Rosnick and The Smothers Brothers.
The director
Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers and the founder of Films We Like. Since Imagine the Sound (1981) he has chronicled North American pop culture in films including Comic Book Confidential, Grass, Altman and Carmine Street Guitars.
