Plot
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.
Written by
Randall Jahnson, Oliver Stone
Directed by
Oliver Stone
Crew
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Carolco Pictures, Bill Graham Films, Imagine Entertainment, Ixtlan Productions
Languages
English
Awards
3 nominations total