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      The Doors: When You're Strange

      R Released Apr 9, 2010 1h 30m Documentary List
      60% 70 Reviews Tomatometer 82% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A history of Jim Morrison and the Doors includes archival footage of concert performances, recording sessions, and backstage scenes. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      It's far from a critical assessment of the band's music or its legacy, but When You're Strange gives fans a beautifully filmed, lovingly assembled tribute to the Doors.

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      kevin c Johnny Depp narrates this film which is mostly a documentary on The Doors and it's iconic lead singer/poet Jim Morrison. Filled with outstanding footage and highlighting all of their famous and infamous antics on and offstage, this is a highly entertaining documentary. Love this film. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Great film great band. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member The best documentary about the history of The Doors. Great for every Doors fan. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Edward G I'm not a fan of the Doors. I kind of enjoyed this . I liked it a lot more than the Oliver stone film about the Doors , and I even learned some stuff . I didn't know that the Doors had so many gold records . I could have really done without all those strange flash forwards of an actor playing Jim Morison crashing his car and hearing about his own death on the radio. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/26/19 Full Review Audience Member Do yourself a favor and just read their wikipedia article...its more compelling than this documentary. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting demystification, but Depp's ever present narration leaves several questions unanswered, and is sometimes a bit too front and centre stage. As a movie it does work well, though just sweeping you along rather than putting you through the wringer. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Gritten Daily Telegraph (UK) This is a far better bet than Oliver Stone's ghastly Doors movie. Rated: 3/5 Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer When You're Strange offers a worshipful but insightful portrait of the group... Rated: 3/4 Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) The cumulative effect of this film is to enhance one's respect for The Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek) and to diminish the same for Morrison, whose posturing now looks like the most fatuous exhibitionism. Rated: 2/5 Jul 2, 2010 Full Review James McMahon NME (New Musical Express) The surviving Doors shouldn't hate Oliver Stone so much - his movie portrays them as a better band than this does. He made a better movie too. Rated: 1.5/5 May 19, 2021 Full Review Gemma James CineVue Reaffirms Jim Morrison as a rock legend, a poet in his own rite and a spiritual and sexual messiah, who opened the doors of perception for his generation and all those to follow. Rated: 4/5 Nov 5, 2018 Full Review Benjamin H. Smith Decider ...it lazily recycles all the same tired myths about Jim Morrison being "like an ancient shaman," and "A rock and roll poet, dangerous and highly intelligent," that we've been reading in solipsistic '60s holdovers like Rolling Stone for the last 50 years. Jan 24, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A history of Jim Morrison and the Doors includes archival footage of concert performances, recording sessions, and backstage scenes.
      Director
      Tom DiCillo
      Screenwriter
      Tom DiCillo
      Distributor
      Abramorama
      Production Co
      Wolf Films, Strange Pictures
      Rating
      R (Language|Drug Material|Nudity|Some Sexual Content Incl Ref)
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Apr 9, 2010, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 2, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $238.6K
      Runtime
      1h 30m
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