The Pathological Optimist

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Miranda Bailey
• Cast(s): Andrew Wakefield, Carmel Wakefield, Brendan McBride, William Parrish, James Wakefield See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 33min
• Music: Craig Richey
• Award(s): Festival 2017 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: The Plastic Detox, Queen of Chess
• Story:
  In the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED: From Cover-up to Controversy stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes us into the inner sanctum of Wakefield and his family from 2011- 2016 as he fights for his day in court in a little known defamation case against the British Medical Journal. Wakefield attempts to clear his name as the media-appointed Father of the Anti-vaccine movement. Director Miranda Bailey weaves a delicate portrait of a man who is THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST utilizing a never-before-seen, full access look at the man at the center of one of the biggest medical and media controversies of our times.
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