Since the star can barely speak - in order to do so, he needs to hold a finger over the tube surgically inserted into his neck to aid breathing - his son Jack narrates the film as Val Kilmer, a sweet touch that is also effective because the two sound alike. Wesley, who had epilepsy, drowned in the family jacuzzi at the age of 15 - a tragedy that still haunts Val, now north of 60. That designation went to his younger brother Wesley, an aspiring filmmaker who shot breezy backyard remakes of " Jaws" and "Batman" movies with his siblings (who were inspired after visiting the set of Adam West's "Batman" series as children). There's plenty of footage of Kilmer's youth as well, because as it turns out, Kilmer wasn't always the most artistically minded member of his family. We watch him visit a storage facility, where he has stored thousands of hours of film, and this decades-long love affair with the lens has yielded a treasure trove of personal moments and priceless behind-the-scenes footage (much of which is people asking Kilmer to put his camera down) featuring some of the most famous films of the '80s and '90s. If it has been a minute since you've given Val Kilmer much thought, you can be forgiven - his last widely-seen film arrived more than a decade ago, and since 2015 he has been undergoing treatment for throat cancer, including a procedure on his trachea that has significantly altered his ability to speak, and in the time since he has been below the radar, if not altogether (quite literally) out of the picture.īut the saving grace for Kilmer at the moment (and film fans in general) is that he recalls being the first among his friends to have a video camera. The shot is one of many presented over an odd little song about the joys of being a cinematographer - and Kilmer is that in this film, along with producer and of course, subject.
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