The Pathological Optimist(2017)

TV-14
1h 33m
- Biography
- Documentary

Release Date: Sep 29, 2017 | Limited

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 ...

Releases

Original Release | Sep 29, 2017

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$5,946
Total US & Canada:
$11,222
Total Worldwide:
$11,222

Director & Top Cast

Miranda Bailey
Director

Miranda Bailey

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Summaries

Storyline

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.