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Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan in...

The Doors

Pioneer Special Edition

( Catalog Number PSE96080 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDisc

The Doors
1991 - 141 min. - Color
Genre: Musical
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Covers the period from 1965-1971; Produced and released in 1991.

Val Kilmer stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's electrifying profile of the Doors, which takes the group from its inception to its demise with the death of the "Lizard King" in a Paris hotel room in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But soon the Doors' fame begins to spread--with Morrison as the focus of attention. Capable of an eerily correct vocal imitation of Morrison, Kilmer makes manifest the talent and charisma, as well as the confusion and despair, of the complex man who was the focal point of the group. As Morrisson's drug consumption and erratic behavior increase exponentially, the rest of the band--Ray Manzarek (Kyle McLachalan), John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley)--begins to grow tired of his late arrivals, the increasing number of cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression, bringing the music to an untimely close.

Stone's intimate familiarity with SoCal in the 1960s provides the film with a high degree of surface verisimilitude, though the film is as much a tribute to the enduring power of the Doors' music as it is a cautionary tale about the perils of both celebrity and substance abuse.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a childhood memory where Morrison sees an elderly Indian dying by the roadside. It picks up with Morrison's arrival in California and his assimilation into the Venice Beach culture, followed by his film school days at UCLA; his introduction to his girlfriend Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan); his first encounters with Ray Manzarek (Kyle MacLachlan); and the origin of The Doors --- made up of Manzarek, Robby Kreiger (Frank Whaley), and John Densmore (Kevin Dillon). As the fame of The Doors grows, Morrison's obsession with death increases. The band grows weary of Morrison's missed recording sessions and no-shows at concerts. Morrison, meanwhile, sinks deeper into a drug-induced haze, having mystical sexual encounters with Patricia Kennealy (Kathleen Quinlan), an older rock journalist involved with sadomasochism and witchcraft. --- Paul Brenner

By 1990, the air from the '60s had nearly cleared, leaving two ways to look at The Doors and its frontman Jim Morrison: As an overly serious showman whose self-aggrandizing navel-gazing embodied the elements that would eventually turn back the progress of the '60s counterculture and whose pretensions overwhelmed his talent; or as a martyr for self-expression deserving of worship. For this biopic, Oliver Stone, a self-professed Doors fan, opts decisively for the second approach and his film seldom benefits from the choice. Choosing to portray excess through excess, Stone's film is a dizzying neo-psychedelic hodgepodge that leaps from one symbolically-charged incident to another, and for those not already enamored of Morrison and The Doors it might easily verge into camp. Leaping on top of a car and declaring oneself the Lizard King might appear heroic to some, but to others it just looks silly. That said, Stone, as always, has made an audaciously stylish, visually compelling film and Val Kilmer does a remarkable Morrison impression, both on stage and off. The same can't be said of Meg Ryan in the role of Morrison's common-law wife. She delivers a shrill, grating performance that reaches a nadir during a Thanksgiving incident involving a charred turkey. Though too uneven to recommend without grave reservations, beyond disastrous holiday dinners, The Doors is worth viewing for isolated moments of brilliance such as A visit to Andy Warhol's Factory, presided over by none other than Crispin Glover as Warhol. --- Keith Phipps

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Cast for The Doors

Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison
Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson
Kyle MacLachlan - Ray Manzarek
Frank Whaley - Robby Krieger
Kevin Dillon - John Densmore
Billy Idol - Cat
Michael Madsen - Tom Baker
Kathleen Quinlan - Patricia Kennealy
Michael Wincott - Paul Rothchild
Dennis Burkley - Dog
Josh Evans - Bill Siddons
Christina Fulton - Nico
Crispin Glover - Andy Warhol
Charlie Spradling - CBS Girl Backstage
Richard Rifkin - New York Journalist
Mimi Rogers - Magazine Photographer
Steve Reevis - Indian in Desert
Carmella Runnels - Indian at the Outdoor Concert
Richard Rutowski
Paul Rothchild - Music Manager's Sidekick
Jennifer Rubin - Edie Sedgwick
Jacqui Bell - Whiskey Girl
Adrian Scott - New York Journalist
Frank Military - Bruce Botnick
Mark Moses - Jac Holzman
Dennis Ott
Jack McGee - Miami Cop
Annie McEnroe - Secretary
Keith Reddin - Miami Journalist
Josie Bissett - Robby Krieger's Girlfriend
Nellie Red Owl - Old Crone
Lydia Peterkoch
Pride in Peril - Miami Warm-Up Band
Sergio Premoli - Patron at The Whiskey
Debi Mazar - Whiskey Girl
Cristen Weldon - Girl in Car
Titus Welliver - Macing Cop
Brad von Beltz - Hippie at Party
Billy Vera - Miami Promoter
Jennifer Tilly
Stanley White - New Haven Cop
Paul Williams - Warhol PR
Floyd Red Crow Westerman - Shaman
Sam Whipple - Sullivan's Producer
Gretchen Becker - Mom
Victoria Seeger - Whiskey Girl
Ashley Stone - New York Journalist
Oliver Stone - UCLA Film Professor
Claire Stansfield - Warhol Eurosnob
Tudor Sherrard - Office Publicist
Davidson Thomson - High Priest
Danny Sullivan - New Haven Cop
Bernie Telsey - Young Man with Pam
Sean Stone - Young Jim
Jerry Sturm - Dad
Wes Studi - Indian in Desert
John Capodice - Jerry
Fiona - Fog Groupie
John T. III Forristal - Bouncer
Harmonica Fats - Blues Singer on Venice Boardwalk
Debbie Falconer - John Densmore's Girlfriend
Laura Esterman - New York Journalist
Rodney Grant - Patron at Barney's
Tim Guinee
Frank Girardeau - Police Lieutenant
Bill Graham - New Haven Concert Promoter
Allan Graf - Miami Cop
Kristina Hare - Par

Crew for The Doors

Michael Owens - Special Effects
Robert Richardson - Cinematographer
Cricket Rowland - Set Designer
Barbara Ling - Production Designer
John M. Norin - Makeup
Ray Manzarek - Composer (Music Score)
Bill Landrum - Choreography
Eugene Cornelius - Special Effects
Clayton Townsend - Associate Producer
Tod A. Maitland - Sound/Sound Designer
Marlene Stewart - Costume Designer
Oliver Stone - Screenwriter / Director
Ralph Thomas - Screenwriter
Lisette Thomas - Set Designer
E. Thomas Case - Makeup
Nicholas Clainos - Producer
David Brenner - Editor
John Densmore - Book Author / Composer (Music Score)
Larry Fulton - Art Director
Robby Krieger - Composer (Music Score)
Steve Arnold - Set Designer
Jim Morrison - Composer (Music Score)
Gary King - Special Effects
John Randal Johnson - Screenwriter
Joe Hutshing - Editor
Mario Kassar - Executive Producer
Bill Graham - Producer
Brian Grazer - Executive Producer
A. Kitman Ho - Producer
Sasha Harari - Producer

Feature Details

Title: The Doors
Feature Release Date: 1991
Genre: Musical
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 141 Minutes
Chapters: 30
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV
Trailer: Original Theatrical Trailer

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 18 Mar 1997
Catalog Number: PSE96080
UPC: 013023507067
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Pioneer Special Edition
Publisher: Pioneer Special Editions

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Certification: THX
Sound Analog Right: Dolby Digital 5.1
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: PSE96080
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
1 in Stock

Rare Dolby Digital AC-3, THX Certified, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

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Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan in...

The Doors

Pioneer Special Edition

( Catalog Number PSE96080 )
(THX) (2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

One of the Best Versions on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDisc

The Doors
1991 - 141 min. - Color
Genre: Musical
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Covers the period from 1965-1971; Produced and released in 1991.

Val Kilmer stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's electrifying profile of the Doors, which takes the group from its inception to its demise with the death of the "Lizard King" in a Paris hotel room in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But soon the Doors' fame begins to spread--with Morrison as the focus of attention. Capable of an eerily correct vocal imitation of Morrison, Kilmer makes manifest the talent and charisma, as well as the confusion and despair, of the complex man who was the focal point of the group. As Morrisson's drug consumption and erratic behavior increase exponentially, the rest of the band--Ray Manzarek (Kyle McLachalan), John Densmore (Kevin Dillon), and Robby Krieger (Frank Whaley)--begins to grow tired of his late arrivals, the increasing number of cancellations, and the drunken recording sessions requiring infinite retakes. But no one can help Morrison as he spirals downward into an inferno of drugs, alcohol, public obscenity, and depression, bringing the music to an untimely close.

Stone's intimate familiarity with SoCal in the 1960s provides the film with a high degree of surface verisimilitude, though the film is as much a tribute to the enduring power of the Doors' music as it is a cautionary tale about the perils of both celebrity and substance abuse.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a childhood memory where Morrison sees an elderly Indian dying by the roadside. It picks up with Morrison's arrival in California and his assimilation into the Venice Beach culture, followed by his film school days at UCLA; his introduction to his girlfriend Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan); his first encounters with Ray Manzarek (Kyle MacLachlan); and the origin of The Doors --- made up of Manzarek, Robby Kreiger (Frank Whaley), and John Densmore (Kevin Dillon). As the fame of The Doors grows, Morrison's obsession with death increases. The band grows weary of Morrison's missed recording sessions and no-shows at concerts. Morrison, meanwhile, sinks deeper into a drug-induced haze, having mystical sexual encounters with Patricia Kennealy (Kathleen Quinlan), an older rock journalist involved with sadomasochism and witchcraft. --- Paul Brenner

By 1990, the air from the '60s had nearly cleared, leaving two ways to look at The Doors and its frontman Jim Morrison: As an overly serious showman whose self-aggrandizing navel-gazing embodied the elements that would eventually turn back the progress of the '60s counterculture and whose pretensions overwhelmed his talent; or as a martyr for self-expression deserving of worship. For this biopic, Oliver Stone, a self-professed Doors fan, opts decisively for the second approach and his film seldom benefits from the choice. Choosing to portray excess through excess, Stone's film is a dizzying neo-psychedelic hodgepodge that leaps from one symbolically-charged incident to another, and for those not already enamored of Morrison and The Doors it might easily verge into camp. Leaping on top of a car and declaring oneself the Lizard King might appear heroic to some, but to others it just looks silly. That said, Stone, as always, has made an audaciously stylish, visually compelling film and Val Kilmer does a remarkable Morrison impression, both on stage and off. The same can't be said of Meg Ryan in the role of Morrison's common-law wife. She delivers a shrill, grating performance that reaches a nadir during a Thanksgiving incident involving a charred turkey. Though too uneven to recommend without grave reservations, beyond disastrous holiday dinners, The Doors is worth viewing for isolated moments of brilliance such as A visit to Andy Warhol's Factory, presided over by none other than Crispin Glover as Warhol. --- Keith Phipps

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Cast for The Doors

Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison
Meg Ryan - Pamela Courson
Kyle MacLachlan - Ray Manzarek
Frank Whaley - Robby Krieger
Kevin Dillon - John Densmore
Billy Idol - Cat
Michael Madsen - Tom Baker
Kathleen Quinlan - Patricia Kennealy
Michael Wincott - Paul Rothchild
Dennis Burkley - Dog
Josh Evans - Bill Siddons
Christina Fulton - Nico
Crispin Glover - Andy Warhol
Charlie Spradling - CBS Girl Backstage
Richard Rifkin - New York Journalist
Mimi Rogers - Magazine Photographer
Steve Reevis - Indian in Desert
Carmella Runnels - Indian at the Outdoor Concert
Richard Rutowski
Paul Rothchild - Music Manager's Sidekick
Jennifer Rubin - Edie Sedgwick
Jacqui Bell - Whiskey Girl
Adrian Scott - New York Journalist
Frank Military - Bruce Botnick
Mark Moses - Jac Holzman
Dennis Ott
Jack McGee - Miami Cop
Annie McEnroe - Secretary
Keith Reddin - Miami Journalist
Josie Bissett - Robby Krieger's Girlfriend
Nellie Red Owl - Old Crone
Lydia Peterkoch
Pride in Peril - Miami Warm-Up Band
Sergio Premoli - Patron at The Whiskey
Debi Mazar - Whiskey Girl
Cristen Weldon - Girl in Car
Titus Welliver - Macing Cop
Brad von Beltz - Hippie at Party
Billy Vera - Miami Promoter
Jennifer Tilly
Stanley White - New Haven Cop
Paul Williams - Warhol PR
Floyd Red Crow Westerman - Shaman
Sam Whipple - Sullivan's Producer
Gretchen Becker - Mom
Victoria Seeger - Whiskey Girl
Ashley Stone - New York Journalist
Oliver Stone - UCLA Film Professor
Claire Stansfield - Warhol Eurosnob
Tudor Sherrard - Office Publicist
Davidson Thomson - High Priest
Danny Sullivan - New Haven Cop
Bernie Telsey - Young Man with Pam
Sean Stone - Young Jim
Jerry Sturm - Dad
Wes Studi - Indian in Desert
John Capodice - Jerry
Fiona - Fog Groupie
John T. III Forristal - Bouncer
Harmonica Fats - Blues Singer on Venice Boardwalk
Debbie Falconer - John Densmore's Girlfriend
Laura Esterman - New York Journalist
Rodney Grant - Patron at Barney's
Tim Guinee
Frank Girardeau - Police Lieutenant
Bill Graham - New Haven Concert Promoter
Allan Graf - Miami Cop
Kristina Hare - Par

Crew for The Doors

Michael Owens - Special Effects
Robert Richardson - Cinematographer
Cricket Rowland - Set Designer
Barbara Ling - Production Designer
John M. Norin - Makeup
Ray Manzarek - Composer (Music Score)
Bill Landrum - Choreography
Eugene Cornelius - Special Effects
Clayton Townsend - Associate Producer
Tod A. Maitland - Sound/Sound Designer
Marlene Stewart - Costume Designer
Oliver Stone - Screenwriter / Director
Ralph Thomas - Screenwriter
Lisette Thomas - Set Designer
E. Thomas Case - Makeup
Nicholas Clainos - Producer
David Brenner - Editor
John Densmore - Book Author / Composer (Music Score)
Larry Fulton - Art Director
Robby Krieger - Composer (Music Score)
Steve Arnold - Set Designer
Jim Morrison - Composer (Music Score)
Gary King - Special Effects
John Randal Johnson - Screenwriter
Joe Hutshing - Editor
Mario Kassar - Executive Producer
Bill Graham - Producer
Brian Grazer - Executive Producer
A. Kitman Ho - Producer
Sasha Harari - Producer

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