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.
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Kathleen Quinlan.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
~40 songs in the Soundtracks, including most of The Doors' hits.
Previously rated 3/5 on Netflix, today it could be 5.
I understand why the film was made: dir. OS had clout by then, and fans would be curious. Plus the freaky likeness both physically/facially and vocally between VK & Jim Morrison. But this is a sad ugly tale from which little can be learned to better people's lives, and it's too bleak to be entertaining. Just listen to The Doors' Greatest Hits instead. Apparently JM's lyrics have a lot of references to death, with which he was obsessed. Apparently a lot of drugs and alcohol were consumed, really to excess. This is all stuff I don't need/want to see.
Super-ironic that, per IMDb trivia, JM hated the extra notoriety he got above the band, and this film is titled with the band's name but is really only about JM, with band members included as minor supporting characters.
Very skippable.
distr. TriStar, dir. Stone; 6-
