I think everyone involved with this movie should be ashamed of themselves/no ones death is funny/I have seen this mess described as a "Comedy buddy road pix" To make a comedy out of such a tragic loss of a really special young man and to make it worse add the Bob Parsons/Cecil Connor fusion into "Dad" is criminal. There are so many people who will take that part as the truth.
Phil Kaufman has posed at Gram's grave in Metarie with a shovel//he seems to have no clue how disgusting that is, but then he has dined out on his little bit of fame?? for thirty years+ and seems very proud of himself. I could respect the man and the event if he had had the decency to see it thru but to leave the remains charring on the side of the road like so much garbage? It made me sick and very angry then and it still does.
I hope some day someone will make a factual decent movie of Gram's life and music and not dwell on the horrible desecration of his remains. The books that have ben written about him are a good start/they may not all agree or be totally accurate but at least they have all been about his life and music not just the tragic end.