DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH

PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY ERIK NELSON

“Arresting, hilarious, and necessary.” – Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“All told, Ellison is a fascinating person to spend 96 minutes with.” – Noel Murray, The Onion

“HIGHLY ENTERTAINING. Ellison comes across as an unstoppable torrent of knotty adjectives and well-aimed curses.
Incisive, funny, and even occasionally inspiring.”
– Leo Goldsmith, indieWIRE

“Harlan Ellison is one hell of a writer… It would seem no easy task conveying the essence of a bigger-than-life figure like Ellison in a 96-minute film.
But Nelson, producer of Werner Herzog's ‘Grizzly Man,’ makes it look easy.”
– V.A. Musetto, New York Post

“GREAT ENTERTAINMENT! A ONE-MAN CULTURAL PHENOMENON! If you happened to be a teenager in the late 1960s or early ‘70s, Harlan Ellison was a literary giant… DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH is utterly agog at Mr. Ellison’s larger-than-life persona, but knowingly so…What Mr. Nelson takes advantage of, and also indulges, is Mr. Ellison’s hammy sreak. He gives the writer generous face time to blast off on all his favorite topics: the abuse of writers, the stupidity of Hollywood, the cruelty of his fellow man, and, most of all, Harlan Ellison.”
– Steve Dollar, New York Sun. Click here to read entire review.

"For fans of Harlan Ellison, the angry, provocative science-fiction writer and essayist, this tightly constructed documentary by Erik Nelson is A NASTY LITTLE DREAM COME TRUE... (it's) like a trip to a great 'Fantastic Planet'-like bookstore."
– Bruce Diones, The New Yorker. Click here to read entire review.

“Harlan Ellison is one of pulp literature’s ultimate braggart hucksters—and a legend in science fiction, for good reason. This loving, lo-fi doc catches him in all his antic glory.”
– Logan Hill, New York Magazine

“With more than 2,000 published stories to his name and a genre-spanning body of work—including memorable episodes of Star Trek and The Outer Limits—Harlan Ellison’s career has placed him in a category all his own. But what makes this bracing documentary, 27 years in the making, is Ellison's incredible personal history. In between all the writing, he feuded with Frank Sinatra, sang alongside Barbra Streisand in a Village café, and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If that’s not a life worthy of a film, we’re not sure what is.”
– Michael Alan Connelly, New York Magazine. Click here to read entire review.

“A ferociously talented writer” – Stephen King

“The spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind.”
– The New York Times Book Review

THE WRITINGS OF HARLAN ELLISON, LIKE THOSE OF PHILIP K. DICK AND KURT VONNEGUT, were once marginalized as science fiction; but now his hugely popular work (nearly 2000 published stories and some of the best episodes of “Outer Limits” and “Star Trek”) has defined its own genre. Ellison’s larger-than-life personality is legendary. “The spellbinding quality of a great nonstop talker, with a cultural warehouse for a mind,” says The NY Times Book Review. In this hilarious portrait, Ellison’s fecund imagination is matched by his nearly limitless supply of outrage. On being asked to donate an interview to Warner Bros. for a DVD extra, he responds: “What is Warner Bros, out with an eye patch and a tin cup on the street? And they don’t even send you a copy of the DVD! You send me the goddamn DVD now or I’m gonna come down to your office and I’m gonna burn it to the ground, how ‘bout that?’ A 27-year labor of love, by Erik Nelson, producer of GRIZZLY MAN, who throws in Ellison’s pal Robin Williams for good measure.

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USA • 2007 • 96 MINUTES • Filmsource Information

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