Bill Hicks was diagnosed with cancer shortly after he decided to clean himself up, coming off drugs and alcohol.
When co-director Matt Harlock won the confidence of Bill Hicks's family, it gained him access to 1300 photos and lots of unseen footage.
A year before his death, Bill Hicks appeared on the David Letterman show. Letterman judged his segment to be substandard and so cut it from the subsequent show. He did not know that Hicks was dying of pancreatic cancer at the time. 15 years later, in January 2009, Letterman invited Hicks's mother Mary onto the show as a belated form of apology.
It took 3 years to compile all the material for this documentary.
This film made its debut at the London Film Festival, having been finished only a week before.
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By what name was American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009) officially released in India in English?
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