Val (2021) on Netflix
R20211h 49mBiographyDocumentary
Val Kilmer has filmed his own life since childhood: home movies, auditions, roles. When throat cancer takes his voice, he turns decades of that footage into the story of his life.
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- IMDb7.6/1016,440 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Val Kilmer spent four decades pointing cameras at himself. The record starts with 16mm home movies he made as a boy with his brothers and continues through school, auditions and the blockbuster roles that followed, among them Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone and Batman Forever. Roughly 800 hours of it sat in boxes for years. A throat cancer diagnosis and the loss of his voice pushed him to assemble the material into a documentary about his life and craft, and his son Jack reads the narration drawn from his own words. His eight-year marriage to Joanne Whalley and their children Mercedes and Jack also figure in the footage.
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- After Val Kilmer was diagnosed with cancer and began losing his voice, he wanted to tell his story with footage that had sat in boxes for years. The finished film is narrated by Kilmer's own words, spoken by his son Jack Kilmer.
- Editor Leo Scott came across Kilmer's archive while working with Harmony Korine on his short film The Lotus Community Workshop, and dug through 800 hours of footage; Ting Poo boarded the project later on.
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