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Unknown White Male
Directed by
Rupert Murray
PG-13
2005
88m
Documentary
,
Biography
6.5
73%
59%
6.7
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The true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with total amnesia. This documentary follows him as he rediscovers himself and the world around him.
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Doug Bruce
Rupert Murray
Director / Screenplay
Unknown White Male Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Given that this retrograde memory loss has cleansed Doug Bruce's perceptions and made him an altogether more open and emotional person, Unknown White Male suggests that amnesia could be the ultimate chicken soup for the soul.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
In the end, it fails to offer any insight into the philosophical question it poses.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
The whole movie feels sorta like a snow job.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Unknown White Male has moments you won't forget, appropriate praise for a documentary about amnesia.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
When it's at its best, Unknown White Male can be stirring and thought-provoking, but too often it's lax and complacent when what's called for is something more probing and investigative.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The Unknown White Male that Murray has made asks profound questions. They're just not necessarily the right ones.
Detroit News
Tom Long
UWM is one thought-provoking piece of filmmaking, raising questions about the very essence of personality.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The engrossing and irresistible documentary Unknown White Male is apparently a true-life tale of mystery and suspense.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Fake or not, Unknown White Male doesn't live up to its tantalizing potential.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Though problematic, repetitive and stylistically rough, the film raises intriguing questions, the most compelling of which is, does our memory determine who we are?
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
While the film raises simple but deeply puzzling questions about memory and identity, the hit-or-miss search for answers by the subject and assorted experts, family and friends is finally unsatisfying.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[An] intriguing and disturbing film.
Observer
Rex Reed
It's a sad story without emotional impact, a fascinating subject treated in a mundane manner.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
While I don't entirely rule out the possibility that Bruce is a hoaxster, it seems more likely that his story is one of those weird scientific anomalies that more frequently turn up as an Oliver Sacks case history.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Not just the story of Doug's journey to finding himself but a meditation on the nature of identity, memory, and connection.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
There are moments of joy that you and I can hardly imagine, and they're marvelously realized by both Murray's flashy, impressionistic direction and his insightful narration.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Bruce's condition seems so bizarre that, at times, you suspect it's a hoax. But the film still manages to raise disquieting issues of personality and identity.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Bruce's story, and the way he lives it before our eyes in several incarnations, makes this an unexpectedly emotional, continually disconcerting film.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Rupert Murray's thought-stirring documentary recounts the bizarre saga of man who walked into a Coney Island hospital claiming not to know who he was.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
A fascinating example of how nonfiction films these days are investigating issues of the self.
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