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Mood:
- AtmosphericGloomyRoughStylizedCaptivating
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Plot:
- Mentally UnstableMusic BandMusician's LifePerformer's LifeRise and FallRising To StardomCelebrity CultureDrug Abuse more...
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Genres:
- DramaMusicIndependentPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- CaliforniaUSA
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Style:
- Surreal
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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- Rock
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- Drugs/AlcoholStrong Sexual ContentNudityProfanityViolent Content
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The Doors, 1991
English
USA
Profile of The Doors
The Doors can be described as atmospheric, gloomy, and stylized. The plot revolves around drug abuse, mental instability, and rising to stardom. The main genres are drama, independent, and music-oriented. In terms of style, The Doors is surreal. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in California. The Doors takes place in the 1960s. The soundtrack is rock. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. Note that The Doors involves strong sexual content, drugs/alcohol, and nudity.
Summary of The Doors
Covers the period from 1965-1971; Produced and released in 1991.
Val Kilmer stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's electrifying profile of the Doors, which takes the group from its inception to its demise with the death of the "Lizard King" in a Paris hotel room in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But soon the Doors' fame begins to spread--with Morrison as the focus of attention. Capable of an eerily correct vocal imitation of Morrison, Kilmer makes manifest the talent and charisma, as well as the confusion and despair, of the complex man who was the focal point of the group. As Morrisson's drug consumption and erratic behavior increase exponentially, the rest of the band--Ray Manzarek (Kyle McLachalan), John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley)--begins to grow tired of his late arrivals, the increasing number of cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression, bringing the music to an untimely close.
Stone's intimate familiarity with SoCal in the 1960s provides the film with a high degree of surface verisimilitude, though the film is as much a tribute to the enduring power of the Doors' music as it is a cautionary tale about the perils of both celebrity and substance abuse.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 February 1991 |
| Runtime: | 140 min |
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as Jim Morrison
as Pamela Courson
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- by: peacefroggg
- peacefroggg rated this movie7/10Good
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- by: hadasi
- hadasi rated this movie5/10So-so
