| Director | Bruce McDonald |
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The film is about a documentary team that follows the reunion of Hard Core Logo, a once-popular punk rock band. Frontman Joe Dick gets the band back together, ostensibly for an anti-gun benefit after hearing Canadian punk legend and personal mentor Bucky Haight, has been shot. They begin the tour in Vancouver and travel thousands of kilometers east along the Trans-Canada Highway to Winnipeg, then northwest along the Yellowhead Highway to Edmonton.
On the way, the band's dark secrets are revealed; however, while they travel, they keep ignoring each other's darkness. Bassist John Oxenberger loses his schizophrenia medication and slowly loses his sanity. Guitarist Billy Tallent finds out that by going on tour he loses his position in mainstream American rock band Jenifur and with that his one shot at stardom.
The band stops by Bucky Haight's reclusive estate only to find he was never shot and that Joe fabricated the lie in order to get the band together. The band and documentary crew drop acid and experience hallucinations. Bucky severs ties with Joe for using him to get the band together.
At Edmonton, Tallent finds out he has another opportunity to permanently join Jenifur. Joe finds out from the film crew and later attacks Billy on stage. Dick destroys Tallent's Fender Stratocaster, which was a gift from Haight, and the band parts ways.
In the final scene Joe Dick drinks with the documentary crew members, then suddenly shoots himself in the head.