A documentary on legendary Hollywood insider Shep Gordon, who fell into artist management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college.
Affectionate and engaging Mike Myers-directed tribute to talent manager falls short.
It might veer towards hagiography at times, but its subject is so entertaining you don't even care.
More sugar-rush than Sugarman, but Gordon’s extraordinary life just outside the spotlight is a whirlwind of charm and chutzpah.
You’ll be looking him up as soon as it ends. The feeling this is all some huge elaborate hoax only adds spice!
Some of his observations about the downsides of fame are on the trite side but you can't help but warm to his sheer zest and good nature.
It is inevitably fondly offered and soft-centred but SuperMensch is still an entertaining journey through a pretty remarkable life.
For a while we the film is a gag. It isn't.
It's a little dewy-eyed about Gordon himself, whose sexual politics in those hell-raising, hair-raising days were perhaps not as adorable as Myers assumes.
The less palatable edges of Gordon's past are largely glossed over (his "No head, No Backstage Pass" T-shirt is treated in "Oh behave!" fashion) in favour of more sympathetic accounts of his desire to be a family man, but he's splendidly charismatic company, as his A-list roster attests en masse.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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