Sr.

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 *review starts @ 16:09

🎙️ EPISODE 658: 03.06.23 Part of 2022 Week! I watched this one on a whim. I knew Robert Downey Jr.'s dad was a weirdo indie filmmaker but I haven't explored that world yet. Directed by (the best documentary I've ever seen) American Movie's Chris Smith — whose 2000s and on work has been hit or miss (he's responsible for one of the two the Fyre fest docs, the mostly meh Operation Varsity Blues, and a driving force behind the cultural phenomenon that is the Tiger King Expanded Universe, which I refuse to engage on any level) — "Sr." doubles as a decent primer on Iron Man's father's important and subversive career, as well as a loving ode from a son to dad in his final years. Jr. comes across both guarded and more normal than you might ever expect (probably not a surprise given the life he's led). So this serves as an intriguing and somewhat atypical entry point in terms of a profile. I enjoyed it and it made me want to explore Sr.'s filmmaking soon.

CHRONOLOGICALLY
⫷ EPISODE 658A - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 658C ⫸

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"Sr." is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith that examines the careers and relationship between Robert Downey Jr. and his father, Robert Downey Sr. It was released on November 18, 2022.