Hit So Hard Rockumentary Is Tediously Paced

Hole drummer Patty Schemel in Hit So Hard.

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O Cinema

90 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127

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Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District

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Directed by P. David Ebersole. 103 minutes. Not rated. At O Cinema Thursday, June 14, through Sunday, Jun 17.

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• Patty Schemel
• Kurt Cobain
• Kristen Pfaff
• Frances Bean Cobain
• Courtney Michelle

In the drug-addicted annals of monster-rock band Hole's lady legacy, there's the one who died (bassist Kristen Pfaff), the one whose husband died (screamer Courtney Michelle), and the one who stayed alive. That's Patty Schemel, the overlooked redheaded drummer close enough to Kurt Cobain that even his Bozo-lipped widow acknowledges on camera, "She was probably more in Nirvana than I was." Fortunately, this means Hit So Hard offers Schemel's lovely personal footage of a vulnerably scrawny Kurt nurturing baby Frances Bean, along with testimonies that Mr. Teen Spirit was privately a "bathroom-humor guy" (!?!), seminal grrrl-rager "Miss World" was recorded during a crystal meth binge, and, according to one astutely hilarious observer, grunge "fashion" was just stolen lesbian style (plaid button-downs, jeans, Dr. Martens). Unfortunately for Schemel, director P. David Ebersole seems to think these pop-up video footnotes are a substitute for narrative development and, more or less, forgets to edit down the rest of the tediously paced rockumentary. Schemel's path from Dairy Queen parking-lot loiterer to Rolling Stone cover face to, well, back to the proverbial parking lot, where a relapsed Schemel ended up stealing drugs while disastrously undermining Celebrity Skin recording sessions, could have been an amazingly told story. Instead, Hit So Hard is just amazing treatment-facility programming.