NOFX’s “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up” Returns to Austin for One Screening This Month

(AUSTIN, TEXAS) The chaos. The conflicts. The success. The farewell. The whole fuckin’ story. Six months after its world premiere at SXSW 2026, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up is back in Austin, the city where it all began. This is the only showing scheduled this month, and it plays today only.

The NOFX documentary, which True Hollywood Talk first covered from the March 15 debut screening returns today, September 26, to three Alamo Drafthouse locations: Lakeline, South Lamar, and Slaughter Lane.

Quick recap

Directed by James Buddy Day, the documentary traces NOFX’s forty-year run across five chapters, from three broke kids who couldn’t play their instruments in 1983 to a band that closed out its Final Tour with roughly a million dollars per member. Along the way, it doesn’t flinch from the ugly parts: Fat Mike’s abusive upbringing, drummer Erik “Smelly” Sandin’s battle with heroin, an intervention that doubled as manipulation “for the greater good,” and a medical emergency at Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows’ house that finally sent Fat Mike to rehab.

The film’s most unexpected turn comes late, when Fat Mike opens his closet, literally, to reveal decades of hidden cross-dressing he’d kept private out of shame, calling the disclosure the most vulnerable thing he’s ever done.

But this isn’t a side note in Fat Mike’s story, nor is it the film’s climax. It’s the core of it. The core of him. For 40 years, the founding member of NOFX: a man who preached authenticity and built a career on refusing to hide, had been hiding the most essential part of himself. For anyone who missed the SXSW premiere, or who simply wants to see it again on the big screen, this is the film that turned a punk band’s origin story into something far more universal.

“It’s been rad working with Alamo to keep us on the screen. As a purely independent film we really appreciate their willingness to take us on as we bring the NOFX madness to as many theaters as we can.”

Jay Reynolds, Executive Producer and Assistant to the Man-a-ger, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up in an exclusive statement to True Hollywood Talk

As we wrote back in March, it does “a hauntingly beautiful job of visually showcasing what genuine authenticity sounds, feels, and smells like.” Five chapters span addiction, brotherhood, an unlikely business triumph on their Final Tour, and Fat Mike’s own long-guarded reveal about who he really is.

Austin got the film first. Today, it gets it back, for one screening only. Watch NOFX’s wild, messy, unforgettable story unfold on the big screen. To purchase your tickets for today’s screenings, visit 40yearsoffuckinup.com.

Read our full review and premiere coverage of 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up here. For more details, follow @40yearsoffuckinup on IG.