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The Doors (1991)  link to The Doors on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 22

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IMDb Rating:
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7.2/10 (67720 votes)

Country: USA, 140 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Music, Biography, Musical

Director(s): Oliver Stone

Cast: Val Kilmer (as Jim Morrison), Meg Ryan (as Pamela Courson), Kyle MacLachlan (as Ray Manzarek), Frank Whaley (as Robby Krieger), Kevin Dillon (as John Densmore)

Medium: Unknown,

Plot Outline: Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.

Location: K19

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1