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Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

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Tireless, uncompromising, and one of the last living legends of his generation, Bruce Dern is an actor whose fearlessness and radical lack of vanity took him places other actors simply wouldn't go. A devoted long-distance runner, Dern has always understood something most people learn too late: endurance is a discipline. He ran through the golden age - directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Hal Ashby, holding his own opposite John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Jack Nicholson. He ran through the lean years. And he kept running until the work caught up with him again - outlasting the very industry that defined him.

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Mike Mendez

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Bruce Dern

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Laura Dern

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Quentin Tarantino

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Alexander Payne

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Synopsis Tireless, uncompromising, and one of the last living legends of his generation, Bruce Dern is an actor whose fearlessness and radical lack of vanity took him places other actors simply wouldn't go. A devoted long-distance runner, Dern has always understood something most people learn too late: endurance is a discipline. He ran through the golden age - directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Hal Ashby, holding his own opposite John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Jack Nicholson. He ran through the lean years. And he kept running until the work caught up with him again - outlasting the very industry that defined him.
Director
Mike Mendez
Producer
Mike Mendez, Benjamin Epstein, Thomas Verrette, Adam F. Goldberg
Screenwriter
Benjamin Epstein
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 51m