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'Unknown White Male' proves amnesia can be boring
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

The documentary "Unknown White Male" wants us to ponder notions of personality and being. Are we made up of our memories and experiences or (as the film has it) by some soul-like "pure us." I mostly pondered if "Unknown White Male" was pure BS. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Doug Bruce woke up in Coney Island with no memory of any day of his life. After turning himself into the police, he was sent off to a psychiatric hospital and eventually rescued by friends — including a filmmaker who documented Doug's struggles to learn who he was and who he would become.

FILM FACTS ...

Wellspring

'Unknown White Male'

Director: Rupert Murray
Cast: Doug Bruce
Run time: 80 minutes
Release date: Feb. 17, 2006
Rating: PG-13 for drug references and brief strong language.

On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
Trailers require Quicktime

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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C-
"You mostly don't care what happens to Bruce, beyond wondering if he'll take his shirt off again."

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Austin American-Statesman: 1 of 5 stars
"(Director Rupert Murray's) respectful distance is bad filmmaking. It undercuts the project, which plays instead like a home movie — flat, fuzzy, meaningful to few. Forgettable."