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Unknown White Male (2005)

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User Rating: 6.7/10 (545 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Rupert Murray
Tagline:
If you lost your past, would you want it back?
Plot:
The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follows him as he rediscovers himself and the world around him. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 nominations more
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David Jeffers for SIFFblog.com more

Cast

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Doug Bruce ... Himself
Rupert Murray ... Narrator (voice)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for drug references and brief strong language.
Runtime:
USA:88 min
Country:
USA | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
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Company:
Court TV more

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Quotes:
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Narrator: How much of our past lives, the thousands of moments we experience, helps to make us who we are? If you took all of these remembrances, these memories, away, what would be left? How much is our personality, our identity, determined by the experiences we have, and how much is already there - pure "us"?
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References The Big Lebowski (1998) more
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Extracts from 'Petrushka' more

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David Jeffers for SIFFblog.com, 10 February 2006
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Author: rdjeffers from Seattle

A Seattle International Film Festival 2005 entry

Wednesday February 8, 7:00pm The Harvard Exit

On Thursday morning, July 3rd 2003 an Englishman stepped off a subway car in Coney Island New York. Doug Bruce had no memory of who he was before that moment. With nowhere to go he turned to the police. Gradually, with the help of his doctors who diagnosed a rare "fugue state" amnesia, Doug reconnected the threads of his identity and within a few days embarked on a bizarre video diary of his own discovery, ala David Holzman. As he was reintroduced to his family and friends Doug agreed to document his story with an old mate, filmmaker Rupert Murray. "Unknown White Male" plays out as a fairly conventional if well crafted documentary. Murray does demonstrate a talent for striking visual montage, but nothing substantial happens and Doug Bruce never regains his memory. While a hospital video made early on seems to show a man in genuine distress, the sequence of events read like Swiss cheese and are ample fuel for skeptics in a post James Frey,"A Million Little Pieces" world.

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