Behind the Life of Chris Gaines (1999)

To promote the release of his album Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines, Garth Brooks appeared as Chris Gaines in a television "mockumentary," a version of VH1's seminal cable classic Behind the Music, featuring a totally made-up tale that just may be the greatest rock n' roll documentary ever made. This piece of art has everything that makes the story of being a rockstar fucking cool. It has childhood trauma, record label trauma, death, disfigurement, a plane crash, a car crash, sex addiction, redemption, a house fire, random unexplained commentary from Billy Joel, and more sex addiction.

Producers	VH1 Productions
Original title	Behind the Life of Chris Gaines
Directors	Michael McNamara, Christopher Meindl
Writers

Cast

Garth Brooks

as Chris Gaines

Brian Vaughn

as Young Chris Gaines

Linda Ljoka

as Roma Stihl

Anthony Meindl

as Ryan Duffy

Tom Ballatore

as Dan Lanier

Carolyn Seymour

as Carolyn Johnns-Gaines

Don Was

as Self

María Costa

as Self

Light Eternity

as Tasha Simon

Melinda Newman

as Self

Ninette Terhart

as Jennifer Allgood

Joe Smith

as Self

Billy Joel

as Self

Ted Larkin

as Officer Barry Sanders

Martin Joseph

as Tommy Levitz

Mark Allan Staubach

as Young Marc Obed

Thomas Voelpel

as Older Marc Obed

Fred Reiser

as Gene Gaines

Jim Forbes

as Narrator (voice)

James Cooley

as Young Chris Gaines