Tangled Up in Dylan focuses on AJ Weberman (which is emphasized with the subtitle, The Ballad of AJ Weberman), and finds directors James Bluemel and Oliver Ralfe focusing on a man that "is infamous, if he is known at all, among Dylan aficionados for being the obsessed stalker who Bob Dylan physically assaulted in 1971 because he had been harassing his family.

"Weberman picked through their trash (he calls his stinky style of sleuthing the science of 'Garbology") and staged demonstrations (with the 'Dylan Liberation Front," the students of his 'Dylanology" classes) outside of Dylan's MacDougal Street brownstone in New York, apparently with the aim of convincing Dylan to, uh, join the revolution, man' but having the result of really pissing him off," according to Dangerous Minds.