Film

A.K.A. Doc Pomus

2012 · 1h 38m · Documentary

IMDb

8.5

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

83

Doc Pomus’ dramatic life is one of American music’s great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “A Teenager in Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” and dozens of other hits. Spearheaded and co-produced by his daughter, Sharyn Felder, and packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, this documentary features interviews with collaborators and friends including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King, as well as passages from Doc’s private journals read by his close friend Lou Reed.

Willi Burke

Marshall Chapman

Herself

Shawn Colvin

Dion DiMucci

• William HechterDirector
• Peter MillerDirector

Release date

October 19, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Documentary