SummaryDying 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, asking us to ... Read More
Directed By:Gay Dillingham
Written By:David Leach
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
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Jun 16, 2016
80
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.
Jun 16, 2016
75
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.
Jun 16, 2016
75
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.
Aug 11, 2016
70
Though sometimes clumsy or nostalgic, the film is an engaging oral history of Leary and Dass's friendship.
Aug 25, 2016
50
It’s less a social history than a commercial for alternative healing.
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Production Company:
- CNS Communications
Release Date:Jun 17, 2016
Duration:1 h 35 m
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