Just as Dick Miller is an impossible actor to dislike so too is this tribute to him - full of love and good nature. Dick Miller was a beloved character actor whose presence illuminated many classic films - The Terminator, Piranha, Gremlins. He became a good luck charm for Joe Dante in particular, appearing in most of that director's movies.
Miller got his start with Roger Corman and became a part of Corman's late 50s stock company, even getting the occasional lead as in Bucket of Blood. He kept that status in the early 60s but kind of drifted out of popularity in the late 60s... then had a comeback in the early 70s at New World Pictures as many Corman alumni liked to use him.
That's kind of it for his life story - he has brothers, a wife who was very hot back in the day and gets a lot of screen time. People like him. He's occasionally anxious. He wrote a bit (including an early draft of TNT Jackson) but gave it up.
It's not a super gripping story - I think it would be better as a 50 minute featurette. Some things feel like padding, such as talking about making Gremlins. And I get it was disappointing to be cut out of Pulp Fiction but was it really such a major tragedy. Still, a very sweet movie.
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