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Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.
Keywords
melancholy
writer
adoring
awestruck
brisk
Casts

Joan Didion
Self

Griffin Dunne
Self

Hilton Als
Self

David Hare
Self
Phyllis Rifield
Self

Amy Robinson
Self
Shelley Wanger
Self

Harrison Ford
Self

Tom Brokaw
Self
Susanna Moore
Self

Vanessa Redgrave
Self
Robert Silvers
Self

Calvin Trillin
Self

Anna Wintour
Self

Patricia Hearst
Self

Janis Joplin
Self

Tuesday Weld
Self

Jim Morrison
Self

Bobby Beausoleil
Self

Oliver North
Self
Jim Didion
Self

Charles Manson
Self (archive footage)

Leslie Van Houten
Self (archive footage)

Linda Kasabian
Self (archive footage)

Patricia Krenwinkel
Self (archive footage)
Crews
Oren Soffer
Additional Second Assistant Camera

Griffin Dunne
Director

William Rexer
Director of Photography
Ann Collins
Editor

Reed Morano
Director of Photography
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography

Nathan Halpern
Original Music Composer
Annabelle Dunne
Producer
Mary Recine
Producer
Backdrops & Posters

