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The Doors

  • 19911991
  • RR
  • 2h 20m
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Val Kilmer in The Doors (1991)
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The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death i... Read allThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
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    • Director
      • Oliver Stone
    • Writers
      • Randall Jahnson
      • Oliver Stone
    • Stars
      • Val Kilmer
      • Meg Ryan
      • Kyle MacLachlan
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    • Director
      • Oliver Stone
    • Writers
      • Randall Jahnson
      • Oliver Stone
    • Stars
      • Val Kilmer
      • Meg Ryan
      • Kyle MacLachlan
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    • 282User reviews
    • 89Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 nominations

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    Val Kilmer in The Doors (1991)
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    Val Kilmer
    Val Kilmer
    • Jim Morrison
    Meg Ryan
    Meg Ryan
    • Pamela Courson
    Kyle MacLachlan
    Kyle MacLachlan
    • Ray Manzarek
    Frank Whaley
    Frank Whaley
    • Robby Krieger
    Kevin Dillon
    Kevin Dillon
    • John Densmore
    Michael Wincott
    Michael Wincott
    • Paul Rothchild
    Michael Madsen
    Michael Madsen
    • Tom Baker
    Josh Evans
    Josh Evans
    • Bill Siddons
    Dennis Burkley
    Dennis Burkley
    • Dog
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    Billy Idol
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    Kathleen Quinlan
    Kathleen Quinlan
    • Patricia Kennealy
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    John Densmore
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    Gretchen Becker
    Gretchen Becker
    • Mom
    Jerry Sturm
    Jerry Sturm
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    Sean Stone
    Sean Stone
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    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
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      • Oliver Stone
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      • Randall Jahnson
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    • Trivia
      The surviving members of The Doors claim that Val Kilmer did such a good job playing and singing as Jim Morrison that they could not distinguish his voice from the real Jim Morrison.
    • Goofs
      Shortly after the band rehearses "Break On Through", the guitarist starts to play the beginning of "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. The song was released in 1975.
    • Quotes

      Jim Morrison: Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

    • Alternate versions
      A special edition of the movie was released in 1997 on laserdisc with additional scenes that were cut from the movie:
      • A scene taking place circa 1965 with Jim Morrison (Kilmer) jamming onstage with Ray's band, adding obscene lyrics to the Van Morrison song "Gloria."
      • 2 additional scenes of a bearded Jim reciting poetry in the recording studio.
      • Additional footage of Jim singing "The Unknown Soldier" at the New Haven concert.
      • A scene of Jim getting roughed up and harrassed in jail by police officers after being arrested at the New Haven concert.
      • Jim in his hotel room with 2 young women and Pam (Meg Ryan) yelling at him from outside.
      • Additional footage in the scene where Jim is on an airplane en route to Miami.
      • Additional scene at the end with Jim and Ray (Kyle Machlachlan) walking around Venice and talking before he departs for Paris.
      • Jim and Pam talking in the airplane en route to Paris.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Scenes from a Mall/Nothing But Trouble/He Said, She Said/King Ralph/The Field (1991)
    • Soundtracks
      The Movie
      Written by Jim Morrison

      Performed by Jim Morrison

    User reviews282

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    8/10
    Absorbing movie - i didn't want it to end. (my only friend...)
    Utterly absorbing bio-pic of Jim Morrison. The name Val Kilmer is, or should be, synonymous with incredible acting that is not merely natural or convincing, but immensely fun and commanding. You may have noticed while watching his recent Wonderland - Val has the ability to make a picture. Here, he IS The Doors: The Movie. There, he WAS Wonderland. I am exaggerating, i suppose. For Oliver Stone has crafted a marvellous film which makes you feel like you've experienced what the sixties were like. Through using The Doors actual music (what was missing from the recent Sylvia, the art of the subject itself - her poetry) to help tell its story and colour its scenes, and filmic techniques to create the drug-induced world vision of Jim Morrison, Stone really takes you into the world of his movie, and the world of the sixties.

    This movie made me appreciate what an exciting experience The Doors were, and has actually cultivated love in me for their music. I didn't realise they had more than one classic: Light my Fire, The End, People are Strange, Love her Madly, Break on Through to the Other Side, Riders on the Storm, Touch Me, Roadhouse Blues (Let it roll, baby roll) and probably more i'm yet to discover.

    For a better recreation of what Andy Warhol's factory actually felt like, see I Shot Andy Warhol. Crispin Glover actually looks more like Andy than the guy who plays him in "I Shot," but the guy in I Shot much better captured Andy's vagueness and almost unconsciousness while in conversation. This, however, is but three minutes in the movie and has no effect on it as a whole.

    Oliver Stone has an amusing cameo: a young film student, Jim Morrison, shows his short film to his class, who are uncouth and disparaging about it, after which camera pans to reveal Oliver Stone standing at the lecturn, (obviously, playing the film professor), who says: "Why don't we ask the author what he thinks?"
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 1, 1991 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 門
    • Filming locations
      • Pulgas Water Temple - Canada Road, Redwood City, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Bill Graham Films
      • Carolco International N.V.
      • Carolco Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $38,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $34,416,893
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,151,800
      • Mar 3, 1991
    • Gross worldwide
      • $34,416,893
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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