My Psychedelic Love Story

TV Movie
2020
TV-14
1h 42m

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6.2/10

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Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith in My Psychedelic Love Story (2020)

An examination of the high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary's "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young woman out for the adventure of a lifetime?

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An examination of the high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary's "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young... Read allAn examination of the high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary's "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young woman out for the adventure of a lifetime?An examination of the high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith. Was Leary's "perfect love" a CIA plant or was she simply a rich, beautiful young woman out for the adventure of a lifetime?

Director
- Errol Morris
Writer
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Stars
- Timothy Leary
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

532

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Director
- Errol Morris
Writer
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Stars
- Timothy Leary
- Joanna Harcourt-Smith

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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- Errol Morris
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- Joanna Harcourt-Smith
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7theknownames

While Leary was more of a pop star than a writer

He certainly still gets credit in the media . This documentary however is about Johanna and her perspective and experience. I find her to be a very credible reporter of her experience and it's refreshing and kept me watching. While the content is less interesting and the information is of course from her experience, her account is what what held my interest and was at times riveting as it unfurled.

1theoldman-05943

Unwatchable

A major failure by the great documentarian Errol Morris about the recently deceased Joanna Harcourt-Smith. She was the girlfriend of Timothy Leary who, when he escaped prison, joined him on his globetrotting romp to keep ahead of the police. Morris makes a classic error, since he's talking a lot of about LSD, and other psychedelics, he thinks it adds to the experience to keep having "trippy" images constantly mixed into the the story. So photographs swirl and expand and displayed text also bubbles up and just gives you a headache. "Like I'm too high, man." I made it through about 12 minutes.

3thejdrage

Nope. Can't take any more of it

This woman seems to be on LSD throughout the entire 15 minutes I was able to sit through.

If she could bottle her ego - she'd be the richest woman in the world.

I couldn't see one more photo of Timothy L.eary learing at the cameras with that strange smile.

And her dancing hither and thither and also wearing a strange smile and name dropping all over the place.

We get it - you were wonderful. Now I have a good book to read.

7theknownames

He was a pop star not og writer

Tho one woman's perspective , her woman's retelling of these events feel credible. This is why I give this documentary a 7 . While the content is interesting and it's not necessarily information, but it is her version of events . considering Timothy Larry became the face of lsd he was more of a popstar not an original writer. What kept me watching is her version of events and her believability-it's her experience. Is also frustrating to further see how his behavior negated much of the would be research and use of lsd , setting us back a lifetime for its uses and research. Just my 2 cents

10drahmedabdelfattah

Forgotten reality

What is disgusting is a thug alcoholic criminal like Nixon stop the course of civilisation and psychiatry, PTSD which most of the innocent American youth tortured by it due stupid wars and the formation of drug cartels and human trafficking and age of Epistein and raping of not innocent girls in our third world, but in the land of freedom, in the land who founding fathers saved the world from slavery, and now the only hope in curing our suffering is medicine like lsd and ketamine.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith: I've seen the absolute depravity of the people who have the most money in this world. And I've seen how there are no morals whatsoever, none. Money and power, and that's it.