This is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. A fictional biography is shown in flashback.
Acting
Sneezy Waters channels Hank's ghost, not imitation — possession.
Score
Live performances that ache with authentic country sorrow.
Director
David Acomba
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sneezy Waters was a Canadian folk singer with no acting experience; director David Acomba cast him after seeing him perform Hank songs in a Toronto bar.
The real Hank Williams died in the back seat of his Cadillac on January 1, 1953 — this film imagines the show he was driving toward, making fiction of country music's most famous 'what if'.
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