METALLICA - Mission To Lars Film Available For Pre-Order Mission To Lars, the film about a learning disabled man, Tom Spicer,
and his transatlantic quest to find his hero, METALLICA drummer Lars
Ulrich, is now available for pre-order through Amazon UK. The
documentary will go on sale April 8 in Northern Europe and will feature a
special bonus 30-minute interview with Lars as a bonus.
Lars Ulrich is a heavy metal god with his own jumbo jet. Tom Spicer
lives in a care home in Devon and has Fragile X Syndrome. Tom has a
dream, to meet his hero, to meet Lars. His siblings promise to make it
happen, with hopes of good times and bonding. But what starts out a
dream soon becomes a nightmare as Tom’s disabilities, a dysfunctional
family, and heavy metal’s labyrinthine backstage world thwart the
mission at every turn. But as they get closer to Lars, Tom the man
starts to shine.
After 20 years and 10,000 times of asking his journalist sister,
Kate, when he was going to meet Lars, she finally cracked. This moving
documentary film that looks beyond disability, and uncovers the soul of a
very cool guy. Kate and filmmaker brother, William, break Tom out of
his care home in Exmouth, and hit the road, from Bristol, to Heathrow,
to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas and beyond.
Mission To Lars was made by
William Spicer and
James Moore. Both
were veterans of music and brand promos, but complete movie novices.
"We had this fantasy of hitting the road with Tom and recreating
some of the magic of our teenage years cruising around in £100 cars,
eating Burger King and listening to heavy metal on the tape deck," says
Kate. "We thought it would be fun, bonding. We wanted to do something
good for our brother. We were also sick of him endlessly asking."
It doesn't take long before the hoped for dream becomes a nightmare
as Tom's disabilities, the dysfunctional family, and Metallica's
labyrinthine backstage world thwart the Mission at every turn.
The film has three goals: entertainment, awareness raising and fund
raising. All profits go to Mencapthe UK's leading learning disability
charity working with people with a learning disability and their
families and carers. Mencap have been closely involved in the making of
the film. Their belief is that the film, in an entertaining and
universally understood way, tells the story of the confusing family
dynamics around learning disability, and portrays Tom as a complex and
likeable character, and not as someone one sees first as learning
disabled and everything else second.
For more information visit
Missiontolars.com.
Sam 26 Jan - 20:55
