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David Foster: Off the Record

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A revealing and personal profile of Grammy Award-winning composer and producer David Foster.

Critics Reviews

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Nick Allen RogerEbert.com 07/03/2020
1.5/4
While the doc might prove that [Foster's] approach worked, it's progressively tedious to revisit these hits through such a thick air of self-affirmation. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety 09/19/2019
A once-over-lightly portrait that teeters between offering a fascinating close-up look at how the sausage of pop gets made and being a kind of infomercial. Go to Full Review
Brad Wheeler Globe and Mail 09/08/2019
3/4
Despite the film's laudatory tone, a portrait of Foster is competently painted by the veteran documentarian Avrich. Go to Full Review
Mara Reinstein Billboard 01/26/2024
Arrogance and a self-congratulatory attitude permeates throughout David Foster: Off the Record, rendering the documentary almost impossible to glean any insight… Go to Full Review
CJ Johnson Film Mafia 08/13/2020
3/5
He's a self-confessed problematic individual, which the film somewhat embraces, but it's best enjoyed as a testament to an astonishing career. Go to Full Review
Kyle Smith National Review 07/23/2020
Foster created the easiest of easy listening. Still, it takes an iron fist to generate so much fluff, as we learn in the amusingly frank documentary David Foster: Off the Record. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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09/11/2020 Self-serving garbage. I would have respected Foster much more if I just saw his resume and never watched the documentary. Bleachhh. See more 08/04/2020 Classic producer documentary...at the end of it, you might think he's Jesus, but alas, he just signs ACTUAL artists. Total snore fest. If you want to sleep, watch the Golf Channel. See more @William125 07/23/2020 I enjoyed this documentary of a man who produced and or co-wrote so many great songs, with so many great artists. He's a flawed individual with an immense ego, but I appreciated that he acknowledged and owned up to these flaws in the documentary. He truly is one of the greatest producers of all-time. See more 07/15/2020 He's got an ego, that's for sure. But I do own a lot of his records. See more 07/08/2020 Five stars for the documentary but 2 stars for his arrogance and utter douchebaggery. See more 07/05/2020 This documentary biography of musician and producer David Foster could have been a lot of things, except that Foster insisted on having his say about things all the way along the line. The result is a rollicking series of "hey I didn't know he was part of that" incidents that work rather nicely together as we follow the man who has spent 50 years in the music business, has 16 Grammy statuettes staring back at him over his grand piano and has help make music and entertainment stars out of people like Michael Buble, Celine Dion, Josh Groban. Did some work with Whitney Houston, was part of the music producers on a little film called The Bodyguard. You might have heard of it? In our current age of "mired down", the Foster film is a chance to connect with the universality of pop music (who would have figured that a Dolly Parton ballad would me a perfect fit for Whitney Houston). Its kinda like this, the music business can be a lot like making sausage, which maybe isn't a bad thing if it's really good sausage. Seems the guy is now taking a run at Broadway. Broadway should watch out. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A revealing and personal profile of Grammy Award-winning composer and producer David Foster.
Director
Barry Avrich
Producer
Barry Avrich, Caitlin Cheddie
Production Co
Melbar Entertainment Group, Bell Media
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 2, 2020
Runtime
1h 37m