Searching for Sugar Man

If it's playing in your city see this movie. It's so outrageous it's almost unbelievable. But it's true. An American musician who never made it, fades into obscurity in the US. But becomes an icon bigger than the Rolling Stones and Elvis, in South Africa. For decades. And he doesn't know it.

Oddly, even though the movie won the "World Cinema Audience Award Documentary" and a "Special Jury Prize" at the Sunset Film Festival in 2012, I heard about it through my hubby who heard about it while listening to a UK radio station. So even now anonymity continues to follow Rodriguez.

Searching for Sugar Man tells his most incredible story: