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Searching for Sugar Man

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.

In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.

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Info about Searching for Sugar Man

Studio(s): Passion Pictures, Red Box Films

Originally Released: United States, Jul 27, 2012

Production Countries: Finland, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Box Office Gross: $9,637,687.00

Budget: $1,000,000.00

Genres:Biography, Documentary, Music