The Doors – 1991 – English – Drama – History
The Doors – 1991 – English
Film directed in 1991 by Oliver Stone, and starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kevin Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Michael Madsen, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Wincott, Bruce McVittie, Dennis Burkley, Josh Evans, Costas Mandylor, Crispin Glover, Mimi Rogers, Sam Whipple, Josie Bissett, Kelly Hu, Titus Welliver, Sean Stone, Oliver Stone, Debi Mazar, Jennifer Rubin, Rodney A. Grant, Eagle Eye Cherry, Christopher Lawford, Karina Lombard, Claire Stansfield, Christina Fulton, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Lupone, Fiona Flanagan…
Synopsis: 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.