Movie Details
Title: Searching for Sugar Man
Release Date: 30 Jun 2012
Runtime: 1h 25m
Genre: Music, Documentary
Director: Passion Pictures, Red Box Films, Canfield Pictures
Production Companies: Passion Pictures, Red Box Films, Canfield Pictures
Overview: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
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