Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: Todd Phillips
Writer: Billy Armstrong
Cast: Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Juliette Lewis, Ben Foster, Addison Timlin, Jake T. Austin, Ashley Rickards, Willow Shields
Plot: GG Allin (Tom Hardy) performs a show in Manhattan. During a song, the venue cuts off the power. GG begins trashing the club. He stips down naked before he is finally persuaded to leave. He walks across the street naked before a fan brings him his shorts. GG walks through the neighborhood, covered in his own blood and feces, followed by a group of his fans. He eventually goes to a friend's apartment, where he and others continue to party and use drugs. Allin takes a large amount of heroin before losing consciousness. His fans pose for pictures with the unconscious GG.
Merle Allin Sr. (Michael Shannon) and Arleta Allin (Juliette Lewis) give birth to their second son, whom Merle Sr. insists on naming "Jesus Christ Allin" after telling his wife that Jesus Christ had visited him and told him that his newborn son will be a great man in the vein of the messiah.
GG is released from prison following nearly a year and a half behind bars for assault. He immediately skips out on parole to go on tour. At a show in Manhattan's East Village, a heavily intoxicated GG strips naked on stage, defecates on the floor, wiping it all over his body before beginning to throw it into the audience. He then throws beer bottles into the crowd, before jumping off the stage and physically assaulting members of the audience, including breaking a woman's nose.
The Allin family lives in a small log cabin in the wilderness outside Groveton, New Hampshire, with no running water or electricity. Merle Sr. becomes more and more of a religious fanatic following his vision, even disallowing all conversation after dark. Following a fight with Arleta, Merle Sr. digs four graves in the cellar beneath the cabin and threatens to commit suicide and take them with him.
GG is arrested in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a female acquaintance tells the police that he assaulted her during sex. GG is given a psychological evaluation as part of the trial. He answers all of the doctor's questions and is very courteous and cooperative. The doctor tells the judge that GG is not psychotic, but is alcohol dependent and has some borderline personality traits. Allin tells the court that the accuser was a willing participant in all the events that took place, before going in detail how they cut and burned each other during the sex and drank each other's blood. GG ends up taking a plea deal to serve 15 months in prison.
The nickname "GG" is born when GG's older brother Merle has trouble pronouncing "Jesus" and pronounces it "Je-Je". Arleta has grown sick of Merle Sr.'s erratic behavior and decides to try to take GG and Merle away from their father, but he catches her in the act. He locks her in the cellar and tells her to pray to God for forgiveness.
During a show with his band the Murder Junkies, GG announces that he is going to commit suicide on-stage on Halloween. His brother Merle (Ben Foster), who is playing bass for the band, laughs it off as the audience cheers. After the show, GG goes home with a woman, Persephone (Addison Timlin). Together they drink and do heroin. They cut each other with a pocket knife and drink each other's blood while having sex. Days later, GG tries to wake her up from her stupor, but nothing is working. Finally, he burns her leg with a cigarette lighter.
Arleta finally manages to leave Merle Sr., and files divorce papers. She quickly remarries and moves to Vermont with Merle Jr. and GG. When it comes time to send GG to kindergarten she has his name legally changed from Jesus Christ Allin to Kevin Michael Allin to save him from mockery in school. He is a particularly poor student, and is placed in special education classes.
GG gives an interview at his apartment where he waxes poetic about his love of country music, especially Hank Williams. The interviewer is surprised by how congenial GG is compared to his stage act. GG then plays an original song in his bathroom for the interviewer called "Rowdy Beer Drinkin' Night".
In high school, GG (Jake T. Austin) is very unsupervised. He hangs out with his older brother Merle Jr., playing music with Merle and his friends. GG learns how to play the drums. Away from school, GG lives a chaotic life of selling weed, breaking into houses and cars, and playing music in a band with his brother Merle. He cross dresses to school just to see the reactions from his teachers and classmates.
GG gets married to a woman named Sandra (Ashley Rickards) when he is a drummer in a band called the Jabbers. It doesn't take long for GG to realize that married life isn't for him. While on tour in Texas, he meets teenager Tracy (Willow Shields), and they begin a relationship. He even stays with her at her parents' house. She eventually gets pregnant, but GG goes back on tour, leaving Tracy behind in Texas.
GG becomes erratic and the Jabbers break up. He starts using heroin more frequently, and will take or drink anything he is offered. He starts touring with another band , this time with Merle again, called Cedar Street Sluts. Before a show in Peoria, Illinois, GG goes to a store to buy a box of Ex-Lax. When he takes the stage that night, GG defecates onstage for the first time. Complete chaos breaks out in the concert hall. Hundreds of punk kids flee for the door while the venue manager goes ballistic on GG, who laughs at the chaos he has created.
The morning after passing out at the party, people finally realize that GG still lay motionless in the same place where they had left him and call for an ambulance. The paramedics pronounce him dead at the scene. As per his wishes, GG's body is left unpreserved. At his funeral, GG's bloated corpse is dressed in a leather jacket and a jockstrap, with a bottle of Jim Beam beside him. Merle has instructed the mortician to not even wash the corpse or apply any make-up. Several mourners comment on the body smelling of feces. GG's friends and former bandmates start posing for pictures with the corpse and placing drugs and whiskey into his mouth. As the funeral ends, Merle puts a pair of headphones on GG, plugged into a portable cassette player, pressing play on a tape of The Suicide Sessions, before closing the casket.
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