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  • 2016
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2016
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became the LSD guru, aski...

  • 2016
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2016
  • 1 h 35 m

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of consciousness through their experiments with psychedelics. Leary became the LSD guru, aski...

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Jun 16, 2016
They both saw themselves, "Dying to Know" posits, as adventurers exploring alternate realities, and hearing where they ended up is a trip all by itself.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 16, 2016
Dying to Know: Ram Dass and Timothy Leary is a love story, but not in a physical sense; instead, the love here thrives in the spiritual realm, an intimacy that makes this biographical documentary quite appealing.
By David Lewis FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 16, 2016
Nothing tops the discussions of mortality between Leary and Ram Dass, during which both of these battered but unbowed explorers of reality come off as nothing less than enlightened.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 25, 2016
Both informative and moving.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 11, 2016
Though sometimes clumsy or nostalgic, the film is an engaging oral history of Leary and Dass's friendship.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 25, 2016
It’s less a social history than a commercial for alternative healing.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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Production Company CNS Communications
Release Date Jun 17, 2016
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website http://www.dyingtoknowmovie.com/
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