Timothy Leary's Dead

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Timothy Leary's Dead

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Released Jun 6, 1997

1h 20m

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Filmmaker Paul Davids chronicles the life and the May 1996 death of the Harvard professor and LSD advocate.

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: B

Sep 7, 2011

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 2/4

Apr 12, 2002

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Entertainment Weekly

Rated: B

Jan 1, 1800

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Rated: 2/5

Aug 12, 2005

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

An unusual documentary about the countercultural guru.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 25, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Jun 11, 2005

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Spoilers: Timothy Leary's dead head comes off in this. I lived in a group house when this came out and was watching it alone when my very uptight roommate walked in from a hard day of shopping at Filene's Basement. Right as the door opened, Leary's head came off, and my roommate screamed and dropped all her shopping bags. This may have a snuff film-like quality, beware! This confirmed my suspicions I don't like Timothy Leary. I've thumbed through his books over the years, I've listened as his myth was built and hummed over, and I always saw him as a turkey. How does a spiritual man understand immaterial realms when this film shows he was petrified of death? How is he capable of being a spiritual guide of immaterial realms when he wanted to conserve his material dumb-dumb brain? If the drugs were really good, he'd know his material human head doesn't mean poop to the greater existential soup of immaterial worlds, and yet this man was selling the spirituality of a drug initially developed by the government for mind control. He stunk. And he f'ed up a lot of kids with his ideas about drugs while he sold it under a faux spirituality. Major fart sounds on his grave, and maybe his head on ice can still smell 'em...?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Excelente documental acerca de la vida de este polemico personaje, pieza fundamental de la revolucion psicodelica de los sesentas. Todo lo que usted quiera saber sobre Leary, lo encontrara aqui, sin sesgos ni tapujos.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Excelente documental acerca de la vida de este polemico personaje, pieza fundamental de la revolucion psicodelica de los sesentas. Todo lo que usted quiera saber sobre Leary, lo encontrara aqui, sin sesgos ni tapujos.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Paul Davids chronicles the life and the May 1996 death of the Harvard professor and LSD advocate.

Director: Paul Davids
Producer: Paul Davids, Todd Mills
Screenwriter: Paul Davids
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Rating: R
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 6, 1997, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 10, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.5K
Runtime: 1h 20m

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