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My Scientology Movie is a British film of genre Documentary with Louis Theroux

My Scientology Movie (2016)

My Scientology Movie
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My Scientology Movie is a documentary film about Scientology by Louis Theroux. Directed by John Dower, it premiered at the London Film Festival on 14 October 2015 and received highly positive reviews from critics. The film takes an unconventional approach to the subject matter, featuring young actors "auditioning" for parts playing high-profile Scientologists in scenes recreating accounts from ex-members about incidents involving senior church management. The church responded by putting the film-makers under surveillance and denounced the movie.

Synopsis

After the Church of Scientology refuses to cooperate in making a documentary, Louis Theroux teams up with former senior church official Mark Rathbun to create dramatic reconstructions of incidents within the church witnessed by Rathbun and other ex-Scientologists. They focus in particular on alleged violent behaviour by the church's leader David Miscavige at its secretive Gold Base facility in California, which Theroux visits. The church retaliates by putting Theroux and his film crew under surveillance, leading to camera-wielding confrontations with a Scientology "squirrel buster" team and with church officials outside Gold Base. Theroux raises questions about Rathbun's own former complicity in the church's "terroristic" activities, leading to tensions between the two men.

Actors

Louis Theroux

(Self)Paz de la Huerta

(Self)Tom Cruise

(Self (archive footage))
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