Mission to Lars

Name: Mission to Lars
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Music, Documentary
Released: September 25, 2015
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 62

2015

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| Release Date: September 25, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Tom Spicer has Fragile X Syndrome and has spent his adult life in a residential care home; ignored, for the most part, by his siblings, Kate and Will. He has only ever asked them for one thing, to meet Lars Ulrich, drummer with Metallica. Mission to Lars follows the three siblings as Kate and Will decide to break their severely autisticTom Spicer has Fragile X Syndrome and has spent his adult life in a residential care home; ignored, for the most part, by his siblings, Kate and Will. He has only ever asked them for one thing, to meet Lars Ulrich, drummer with Metallica. Mission to Lars follows the three siblings as Kate and Will decide to break their severely autistic brother Tom out of his home in a sleepy English town and take him to America to find Lars. Any dreams of a bonding rock n roll roadtrip fade as Kate and Will’s struggle to understand their brother’s condition, while Tom confronts the challenges of his syndrome and the ignorance and noise in the outside world. … Expand

Director: James Moore and William Spicer

Genre(s): Adventure, Biography, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

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Neil Genzlinger

Sep 24, 2015

Documentaries about disabilities don’t come any smarter or more touching than Mission to Lars, a beautiful sibling road trip tale with a heavy-metal flourish. Read full review

Kevin Harley

Sep 22, 2015

It’s also enlightening, the Spicers and us learning things about Tom that inform, move, humanise and suck us into his story. Read full review

Empire Eve Barlow

Sep 22, 2015

This is not about where the Spicers end up, but how they get there, and you endure every stressful, exhausting and spectacularly tender moment of that voyage with them. Read full review

Brad Wheeler

Oct 2, 2015

We’re not sure what sister and brother ultimately learned about their much different sibling, and one is left with the feeling the trip was more in service of the film’s narrative than a dream-fulfilling jaunt for Tom. Read full review

The Guardian Catherine Shoard

Sep 22, 2015

The peripheral interviews with the extended Spicer family are as compelling as the central quest; this is a film with rare honesty and nuance in a field that frequently feels queasy. Read full review

Time Out London Sharon O'Connell

Sep 22, 2015

There’s more at play than a feelgood factor, as William and Kate are forced to examine their own reasons for making the trip. However well-intentioned, giving, they realise, is also taking. Read full review

Ian S. Port

Sep 22, 2015

But the biggest frustration is that the film's abrupt ending fails to show whether Kate and William really did rebuild their relationship with Tom on the Ulrich quest, and, either way, what that outcome means for the rest of us. Read full review

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