THE MOUNTAIN

By Rick ALVERSON

THE MATCH FACTORY - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2018
Competition
Rotterdam IFF 2019
Voices
Sundance Film Festival 2019
Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rick ALVERSON
    • Synopsis
    • The year is 1953. Andy, a young, introverted teenager, works as a Zamboni driver at an ice rink where his father is a flamboyant skating instructor. Andy’s mother is institutionalized. When Andy meets Dr. Wallace Fiennes, a famous lobotomist now in the sad decline of his career, the shy young man joins the doctor on a tour of rural mental hospitals. As Fiennes desperately evangelizes for the lobotomy procedure to drum up business, Andy becomes infatuated with a patient and her father and immerses himself in the surreal, burgeoning New Age movement of the American West.