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    The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

    R2019 · Drama · 2h 3m

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  1. Plot. In 2017, Times journalist Audrey Newhouse interviews popular actor Rupert Turner about his recently published book Letters to a Young Actor. The book collects letters he received from John F. Donovan, an actor he corresponded with as a child and who died from a drug overdose .

    • Xavier Dolan
  2. Dec 13, 2019 · With Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Susan Sarandon. A decade after the death of an American television star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

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    • Drama
    • Xavier Dolan
    • 2019-12-13
  3. Sep 13, 2018 · Sep 13, 2018 3:11pm PT. Toronto Film Review: ‘The Death and Life of John F. Donovan’. Xavier Dolan crafts an ecstatic ode to the power of celebrity in this intensely personal...

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  5. Dec 13, 2019 · The Death & Life of John F. Donovan. Monica Castillo December 13, 2019. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Xavier Dolan ’s English language debut “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan” is a confounding movie about our relationship to celebrities and the effect they have on us.

  6. Jun 4, 2019 · Kit Harington plays Donovan, a spiralling young actor who finds in Rupert Turner (Jacob Tremblay), an 11-year-old fan, the most unexpected pen-pal. Now fully grown, years after Johns death, Rupert (Ben Schnetzer) chooses to gather their correspondence for a book, reflecting on the late star’s state(s) of mind through his words.

  7. Dec 13, 2019 · The Death and Life of John F. Donovan finds writer-director Xavier Dolan flailing at profundity with a technically assured drama that never makes sense of its own ideas. A young actor...

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  8. Sep 11, 2018 · Now comes the former child actor’s first English-language project, “The Death and Life of John F. Donovan,” a shocking misfire that nevertheless demonstrates the sheer confidence in...