How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

How to Explain Your Mental Illness to Stanley Kubrick

What if the greatest director who ever lived had one thing completely wrong?

•1h 7m

DocumentaryScience FictionDrama

A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to confront him on the depiction of mental illness in his filmography. Kubrick's obsession with 'crazy' characters who meet an untimely death disturbs Philip, who wishes he could see Kubrick characters who manage their illness. The two directors go on a journey into Kubrick's films to understand insanity in our modern era.

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Bold Decade Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Derrick Gebhardt

Derrick Gebhardt

Stanley Kubrick

Philip Józef Brubaker

Philip Józef Brubaker

Philip

Jeremiah McDonald

Jeremiah McDonald

HAL 9000 (Voice)

Gabe de Paz

Gabe de Paz

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