Val

Val

2021 · 109 min · EN · R · 7.2 (246 votes)
Dir. Ting Poo, Leo Scott · Starring Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Kevin Bacon, Fairuza Balk · Music Garth Stevenson

“The life you live is the story you tell.”

Documentary

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.

VIBE

A deeply personal and often raw dive into an actor's life, pieced together from his own extensive archives. It feels like flipping through a candid, sometimes painful, photo album of a complex artist grappling with his past and present.

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