Val

2021 109 min ★ 7.2 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.

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Cast

Val Kilmer

Self

Jack Kilmer

Self / Narrator

Mercedes Kilmer

Self

Joanne Whalley

Self

Details

Director

Leo Scott

Tagline

"The life you live is the story you tell."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

A24, IAC Films, Boardwalk Pictures, ValArt Ltd, Cartel Films

Reviews

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September 3, 2022

★ 6/10

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 o...