The Mountain
Release date: July 26, 2019
Studio: Vice Studios
Director: Rick Alverson
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Dustin Guy Defa, Colm O'Leary
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Denis Lavant, Hannah Gross, Udo Kier
Plot Summary: With Andy’s mother is confined to an institution, he has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor’s career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institutions’ patients. When they arrive at a California mountain town, a growing center of the New Age movement, they encounter an unconventional French healer who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter, Susan.
Release date: July 26, 2019
Studio: Vice Studios
Director: Rick Alverson
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Dustin Guy Defa, Colm O'Leary
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Denis Lavant, Hannah Gross, Udo Kier
Plot Summary: With Andy’s mother is confined to an institution, he has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor’s career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institutions’ patients. When they arrive at a California mountain town, a growing center of the New Age movement, they encounter an unconventional French healer who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter, Susan.
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