SUMMER TOUR

(director/writer: Mischa Richter; cinematographer: Hayden Mason; editor: Jay Rabinowitz; music: The Grateful Dead, Dead & Company; cast: Jeremiah Pierce, Annabelle Dunn; Runtime: 82; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Mischa Richter, Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Evelina Kirgan, Chloë Sevigny, Lizzie Nastro; Utopia Release; 2025)

“I guess some folks can’t see the Dead enough.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
 
The musical documentary is about the Deadheads who try to catch all the Grateful Dead concerts. It’s an underwhelming film directed by Mischa Richter (“I am a Town”). It follows Jerry and Anna traveling across the country in their minivan to go to the Dead summer concerts. I guess some folks can’t see the Dead enough.

The non-critical film is at its best when the music plays and for how breezy it is. But with no drama, no tension and not much of a story, the pic didn’t get me too high.

It played at the Telluride Film Festival.

REVIEWED ON 7/25/2026  GRADE: B-
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