Movies for Grownups: 'Jingle Bell Rocks'

Movies for Grownups: 'Jingle Bell Rocks'

Rock around the Christmas tree to some new and unusual holiday tunes!

In this musical documentary, director Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world’s most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes: hip hop legend Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips’ frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, Los Angeles DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the 12 best underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded, Kezin both asks and answers the question, “Why, when Christmas rolls around, are we still stuck cozying up with Bing Crosby under a blanket of snow?” 

Equal parts social history, pop culture pilgrimage and revealing character study, “JINGLE BELL ROCKS!” follows this motley crew of merry misfits as they confront the Christmas music mainstream, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st century.