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Morgan Nevillle

T’S BEEN OVER THREE YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF —explorer, chef, storyteller and one of the most influential cultural correspondents of our time. Throughout his career as an NYC chef, best-selling author and an Emmy-award winning TV host of and Bourdain shed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville, director of and the Mr. Rogers documentary follows Bourdain’s trajectory as he became the beloved star so many grieved for when he took his own life. “I didn’t want the film to feel like a eulogy. We tend to read history backward, but life lives forward,” says Neville. “The film itself should at least help people process his death enough so we can start to think about his life again.” So, rather, this film is an ode to the uncommon life of Bourdain, the journey of what made his brutally honest star rise.

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