Val

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.

Cast

Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

as Self

Jack Kilmer

Jack Kilmer

as Self / Narrator

Mercedes Kilmer

Mercedes Kilmer

as Self

Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley

as Self

Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

as Self (archive footage)

Sean Penn

Sean Penn

as Self (archive footage)

Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis

as Self (archive footage)

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

as Self (archive footage)

David Thewlis

David Thewlis

as Self (archive footage)

Fairuza Balk

Fairuza Balk

as Self (archive footage)

Reviews

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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, "H...

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