Documentary on Edmonton country-punk band Jr. Gone Wild premieres at Metro Cinema
The film is a decades-long look at Mike McDonald's band, its record deals, lineup changes and the friction behind its 1995 breakup.
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The documentary More Miles Than Money: The Story of Jr. Gone Wild is set to premiere at Metro Cinema on Sunday at 7 p.m. before heading to the festival circuit.
Directed by Eden Munro, a local journalist, the film traces the career of Jr. Gone Wild, the Edmonton country-punk band whose first incarnation dates to 1982. Munro describes it as a "rise and fall and rise again" story, drawing on a huge volume of archival material.
Munro, who co-founded NTT Films with Mike Siek, a former Vue Weekly colleague, began filming the Edmonton scene during the Vue Weekly era. The team filmed the band's 2013 reunion show and archived it, and it was not revisited until the documentary project.
The film includes interviews with band members and collaborators, and tackles the friction that led to the band's 1995 breakup. Lead singer Mike McDonald, a legendary drinker in his younger days, is open about his role in that friction. Bassist Dove Brown recalls first meeting McDonald and saying, "He seemed like a grouch."
The premiere is listed for Metro Cinema at the Garneau, as part of the CJSR Air Tight FunDrive Festival, with tickets available at metrocinema.org.
HighOnCity covered Metro Cinema's June screening of Dirty Water Director's Cut.
