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Val( 2021)

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The life you live is the story you tell.

Overview

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Val Kilmer

      Self

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      Jack Kilmer

      Self / Narrator

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      Mercedes Kilmer

      Self

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      Joanne Whalley

      Self

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    A review by tmdb28039023

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    Written by tmdb28039023 on Sat Sep 03 2022
    The line between fiction and reality is seldom as blurry as when it comes to actor Val Kilmer who, as clichéd as it sounds, is a true chameleon. As consumptive gunslinger Doc Holliday in Tombstone, Kilmer looks for all the world like a man who’s running late for his own funeral. And on The Doors, "He looks so uncannily like Jim Morrison that we feel like this isn't a case of casting, it's a case of possession" (Ebert). As it turns out, Kilmer has apparently held a camcorder in his hand for as long as he was strong enough to lift it, only putting it down in the stretches between "action" and ...

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    Videos 2Backdrops 23Posters 6

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • biography
    • home movie footage
    • archive footage
    • struggling actor
    • family photo
    • amateur footage
    • actor
    • cancer victim
    • fight against cancer
    • biographical documentary