Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Movie · 103 min · ★ 7.5 · 91% critics
Listen to Me Marlon is a definitive documentary built from hundreds of hours of private audio recordings, with the subject guiding you through a life story from his own perspective. The film explores his career and his world away from the stage and screen, using his voice as the centerpiece.
Also known as Lying for a Living
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Streaming on Paramount+ and Showtime.
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-07-29
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 91/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (168 votes)
About
You’ll like this if you want a deeply personal, voice-led look at a legendary movie icon through rare audio and archival material; Not for you if you dislike long, mostly firsthand documentary narration like McQueen or Spielberg.
Pros: intimate self-narration; private archive; compelling portrait | Cons: can be hard to follow; jumpy pacing; limited outside context
Themes
- biography
Cast & crew
Marlon Brando
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Stella Adler
as Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as Self (archive footage)
Montgomery Clift
as Self (archive footage)
Anna Kashfi
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
as Self (archive footage)
Francis Ford Coppola
as Self (archive footage)
Konstantin Stanislavski
as Self (archive footage)
Burt Reynolds
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Stevan Riley