Val( 2021)

TV-MADocumentary

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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.

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Val Kilmer
Self
Jack Kilmer
Self / Narrator
Mercedes Kilmer
Self
Joanne Whalley
Self
Kevin Bacon
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
David Thewlis
Self (archive footage)
Kurt Russell
Self (archive footage)
Kelly McGillis
Self (archive footage)
Anthony Edwards
Self (archive footage)
Oliver Stone
Self (archive footage)
Mira Sorvino
Self (archive footage)
Madeleine Stowe
Self (archive footage)
Fairuza Balk
Self (archive footage)
Cher
Self (archive footage)
John Frankenheimer
Self (archive footage)
Rick Rossovich
Self (archive footage)
Tony Scott
Self (archive footage)
Adam West
Self (archive footage)
Burt Ward
Self (archive footage)
Lucy Gutteridge
Self (archive footage)
James Tolkan
Self (archive footage)
Tom Sizemore
Self (archive footage)
Barry Tubb
Self (archive footage)
Tim Robbins
Self (archive footage)
Oprah Winfrey
Self (archive footage)
Jay Leno
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Fallon
Self (archive footage)
Joel Schumacher
Self (archive footage)
Sean Penn
Self (archive footage)
Jim Morrison
Self (archive footage)
Peter Kass
Self (archive footage)
Tom Stratton
Self (archive footage)

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A review by tmdb28039023

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 ...