The Pathological Optimist

Name: The Pathological Optimist
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 29, 2017
Duration: 93 min

2017

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Cinema Libre Studio | Release Date: September 29, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: Who is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In The Pathological Optimist, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has comeWho is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In The Pathological Optimist, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has come to be known as “The Anti-Vax Movement.” An expat from Britain who currently resides in Austin, Texas, Wakefield allowed Bailey and her team to follow him and his family for five years beginning in 2011 as he fought a defamation battle in the courts against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer. The results of that case – and the self-reflection, pronouncements, and observations of Wakefield, his legal team, wife, and his children – create a complex and incisive look at one of our era’s most fear-provoking and continuously provocative figures. The Pathological Optimist takes no sides, instead letting Wakefield and the battles he fought speak for themselves.… Expand

Director: Miranda Bailey

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Frank Scheck

Oct 5, 2017

Ultimately, of course, Wakefield himself is beside the point. The controversy over vaccinations will rage on and this cinematic portrait will merely be a footnote. But it proves a compelling one, however you may feel about the burning issue. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 5, 2017

For a movie about so rabble-rousing a figure, it’s an unusually quiet portrait. Read full review

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