The Replacements never authorized a single note of their music to appear in this portrait, so director Gorman Bechard builds the whole film out of talk: musicians, critics, and fans describing a band famous for shows that could turn into transcendent triumphs or drunken train wrecks within the same set. Voices from Bob Mould to Peter Buck to journalists who covered the Minneapolis scene reconstruct the band's mythology from the outside in, since no photo or performance clip ever appears onscreen. What emerges is less a chronological history than an oral collage, people finishing each other's stories about a group that seemed to sabotage its own success on principle, walking off stage mid-song or playing entire sets of covers just to spite an audience expecting hits. The absence of the band's own music becomes the film's method: you learn what The Replacements meant by hearing how obsessively other people still argue about them, decades after the band split up without ever becoming as famous as everyone insists they should have been.