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.
Direction
Co-directors shape decades of footage into poetic narrative.
Acting
Kilmer's self-performance is devastatingly raw.
Director
Leo Scott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kilmer shot thousands of hours himself; his son Jack edited and narrated, creating a family collaboration decades in the making.
The film reframes Kilmer's 'difficult' reputation—what Hollywood called 'method' was actually a man documenting his own unraveling in real-time.
US
