THE MOUNTAIN (2019) Trailer, Clip, Images and Posters

"The Mountain" is a drama co-written and directed by Rick Alverson ("The Comedy", "Entertainment"), loosely based on the story of controversial physician Walter Freeman.

The film is set in the 1950s during the golden age of American male supremacy, and it follows an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan), who joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor's recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum's patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Denis Lavant and Udo Kier co-star.

"The Mountain" premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and received a limited release in theaters on July 26, 2019.

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"1950s America. Since his mother's confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor's career and life unravel, he begins to identify with the institutions' patients. Arriving at a California mountain town, a growing center of the New Age movement, they encounter an unconventional French healer who requests a lobotomy for his own daughter, Susan. "