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.
Behind the Life of Chris GainesDocumentary, Music
Cast
- Garth Brooks — Chris Gaines
- Brian Vaughn — Young Chris Gaines
- Linda Ljoka — Roma Stihl
- Anthony Meindl — Ryan Duffy
- Tom Ballatore — Dan Lanier
- Carolyn Seymour — Carolyn Johnns-Gaines
- Don Was — Self
- María Costa — Self
- Light Rand — Tasha Simon
- Melinda Newman — Self
- Ninette Terhart — Jennifer Allgood
- Joe Smith — Self
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