As a comedy drama that combines black humour and irony, Grand Theft Parsons has much to recommend it. Based on a true story, it contains an engagingly understated performance by Jackass's Johnny Knoxville in the lead role. He plays Country rock musician Gram Parsons's former friend and road manager Phil Kaufman. When Parsons was alive, he confessed to Kaufman that if he died ahead of his friend, he wanted him to fulfil a promise of taking his body to the area of the Joshua Tree and cremating it.

Kaufman is faced with this prospect, as Parsons dies at the beginning of the film. Essentially then, Grand Theft Parsons is a simple tale about keeping promises.

Kaufman has to cut through a lot of red tape to get his hands on the coffin and then, on the way to the Joshua Tree, there are family members on his tail, who may not share his desires to fulfil this promise.

Shot on a shoestring budget and sticking fairly faithfully to what went on in real life, David Caffrey's film is destined to be a late night cult classic. Knoxville gives a wonderfully believable performance, Forster is strong as Gram's dad and there's plenty of laughs along the way.

What proves to be the winning touch is the story itself. Who said that truth is stranger than fiction?