Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level. Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior...
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality has generally received very positive reviews.
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality was released in 2003 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 25 reviews, giving Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003) an average rating of 79%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 95%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 55%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 79%, Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2003, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 2003 with similar scores include films like Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Good Bye, Lenin!.
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