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Timothy Leary's Dead

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

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: B Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Globe and Mail Rated: 2/4 Apr 12, 2002 Full Review Entertainment Weekly Rated: B Jan 1, 1800 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 2/5 Aug 12, 2005 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice An unusual documentary about the countercultural guru. Rated: 3/5 Jul 25, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jun 11, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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