Film

Beauty Is Embarrassing

2012 · 1h 28m · Documentary

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

90%

Metacritic

72

Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.

Wayne White

Self

Mimi Pond

Self

Woodrow White

Self

Lulu White

Self

Gary Panter

Self

Mark Mothersbaugh

Self

Ric Heitzman

Self

Billie June White

Self

Willis White

Self

Paul Reubens

Self

Matt Groening

Self

• Neil BerkeleyProducer · Director · Director of Photography
• Chris BradleyEditor · Writer
• Morgan NevilleProducer
• Milan ErcegProducer
• Aimee BothwellExecutive Producer
• Tim RutiliOriginal Music Composer

Beauty Is Embarrassing - Official Trailer 9/7 [HD]

Release date

September 7, 2012

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Documentary