Searching for Sugar Man
2012 · 85 MIN · IMDB 8.2 · 74,442 VOTES · DIR. Malik Bendjelloul
Overview
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,321 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:21 (# Sugar Man by Rodriguez)
00:05:59 (Coffey) Maybe it forced you to listen to the lyrics
00:09:51 Why didn't it make it? That's the big question that today still haunts me.
00:13:24 "Little bit... Little bit different from the others," I said, "but great songs."
00:18:26 and we heard this song, "I wonder how many times you've had sex?"
00:21:29 (Segerman) It may seem strange that South African record companies
00:24:16 (Möller) The biggest hit was a song called Set It Off
00:27:57 and that's when I realised there was nothing on the record
00:31:14 they asked if I wanted to co-write the liner notes for the booklet
00:34:08 It's a lot of records, especially for a small country.
00:37:17 There's nothing... You never heard anything like him.
00:40:18 and who was also searching for Rodriguez.
00:43:25 And Mike Theodore said, "What do you mean dead? He's not dead.
00:46:50 So that night I phoned her.
00:51:17 But I do get about.
00:55:31 and Native American.
00:59:56 (Rodriguez) Well, I started playing when I was 16
01:03:17 and we were sure that they weren't for us.
01:06:12 and everyone else had gone out.
01:09:43 It was for everybody there, I'm sure
01:14:10 Absolutely nothing back.
01:17:42 and sing the song word for word... all of the songs word for word.
01:21:20 Something beautiful.
139:01:06 Nine get elected.
Cast & Characters
Rodriguez
Self
Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman
Self - Record Shop Owner
Dennis Coffey
Self - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970
Mike Theodore
Self - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970
Dan DiMaggio
Self - Bartender, The Brewery
Jerome Ferretti
Self - Bricklayer
Steve Rowland
Self - Producer, Coming from Reality 1971
Willem Möller
Self - Musician
Craig Bartholomew Strydom
Self - Music Journalist
Ilse Assmann
Self - Former Apartheid Archivist
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,321
Dialogue density15.5 lines / min
First line00:00:21
Final line139:01:06
Production Record
DirectorMalik Bendjelloul
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,000,000
Revenue$3,696,196
IMDb votes74,442