Synopsis
'Running from Crazy' is a documentary examining the personal journey of model and actress Mariel Hemingway, the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, as she strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness.
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Cast
- Mariel HemingwaySelf
- Dree HemingwaySelf
- Margaux HemingwaySelf (archive footage)
- Langley Fox HemingwaySelf
- Joan HemingwaySelf
- 80
The Telegraph
Using home movies and other footage, Kopple provides a discomfiting portrait of a family’s deep-seated dysfunction. - 80
The Telegraph
Using home movies and other footage, Kopple provides a discomfiting portrait of a family’s deep-seated dysfunction. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
There is much here of interest to aficionados of the great author as well as to those curious about the complicated relationship between sisters Mariel and the late Margaux. - 70
The New York Times
This heart-wrenching and deceptively conventional documentary manages the tensions in its subject and in the vérité approach in a fruitful, illuminating and surprisingly moving way. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
There is much here of interest to aficionados of the great author as well as to those curious about the complicated relationship between sisters Mariel and the late Margaux. - 70
The New York Times
This heart-wrenching and deceptively conventional documentary manages the tensions in its subject and in the vérité approach in a fruitful, illuminating and surprisingly moving way. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Hemingway wins us over and, in the end, comes off as earnest in her desire to use her celebrity to help shine a light on the maladies that have shattered her family, time and again. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Hemingway wins us over and, in the end, comes off as earnest in her desire to use her celebrity to help shine a light on the maladies that have shattered her family, time and again.