Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) Video Mp4 Download Movie
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s-only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?.
I was bigger than bubblegum,” says Michael J Fox, reflecting on the heady heights of his 80s success, midway through the new documentary STILL: A Michael J Fox Movie.
“You think it’s made out of brick and rock but it’s not, it’s made out of paper and feathers. It’s an illusion.”
To say that the beloved Back to the Future and Family Ties star talks candidly about his life and career is an understatement.
Speaking directly to camera in his New York home, the 61-year-old actor reflects with unflinching, often hilarious honesty on a career that took him from starving Canadian bit player to what he calls “the boy prince of Hollywood” – as synonymous with the 80s as the Rubik’s cube and MTV – to tireless advocate for research into Parkinson’s disease, the degenerative condition he’s lived with for more than half his life.
“I should have seen it coming – the cosmic price I had to pay for all my success,” Fox remarks of his Parkinson’s diagnosis in 1991, when he was just 29.
“In the face of all evidence to the contrary, I was an acid bath of fear and professional insecurity,” he says, noting that his first sign of Parkinson’s-related trembling was “a message from the future”.
This portrait of the star, by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), combines clips from Fox’s performances with media footage and expertly staged re-enactments, using each to supplement the actor’s wry commentary and narration, much of it taken from his bestselling 2002 memoir, Lucky Man.
As a celebrity documentary, STILL is cleverly crafted, scrambling time in ways that do the temporal rollercoaster Back to the Future Part II proud. At one point it seamlessly cuts from Fox’s disorientated Marty McFly, waking up in that movie’s alternate timeline, to the actor struggling to haul himself out of bed in the present day – a future stranger than any on-screen vision of his life could have imagined.
The montage suggests both a startling dissonance – the once livewire physical performer wrestling with the simplest of daily activities – and a remarkable continuity, with the star’s winning, indefatigable on-screen spirit remaining constant.
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: May 12, 2023 (United States)
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan
Source: STILL.A.Michael.J.Fox.Movie.2023.1080p.ATVP.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19853258/
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