Mister Organ

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Mister Organ

2023

1h 36m

Documentary

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Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) unwittingly stumbles into a game of cat and mouse with a mystery man creating havoc in his neighborhood, wheel-clamping cars at a local antique store. That clamper was Michael Organ, and little did Farrier know that delving deeper into who Organ really is would be a thrilling and tension-filled three-year-long investigation -- unearthing a trail of multiple court cases, inflated claims of royal bloodlines, ruined lives, and at least one stolen boat.

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Critics Consensus

Mister Organ lures the viewer in with its stranger-than-fiction setup before revealing itself to be far darker and more complex -- not to mention rewarding -- than it initially appears.

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Amy Nicholson

FilmWeek (LAist)

11/01/2023

An unhinged character study.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

10/12/2023

3/5

It's less an examination of the psyche of one man than a PSA about manipulators.

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Nick Allen

RogerEbert.com

10/12/2023

3.5/4

At the risk of his sanity, Farrier has bottled one of the darkest ways a law-abiding human can be made.

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Anya Couture

Geek Vibes Nation

Aug 9

7.5/10

It’s a chilling story with beats of absurdity that could never be conjured up in a scripted film. However, it’s the closeness of the subject to the documentarian that lessens how thorough Farrier can be.

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Farah Cheded

A Good Movie To Watch

04/19/2024

Even if it winds up feeling like Organ is precisely the last person you should make this kind of documentary about [...] Farrier inadvertently gives us a handy PSA of sorts: if you ever meet someone who reminds you of Organ, run.

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Carmen Paddock

TAKE ONE Magazine

11/29/2023

Farrier's gutsy exploration and ability to dredge the most bizarre happenings to the surface put Louis Theroux to shame.

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Mary M

May 29

This film creeped me out so much!

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Big G

@BrickRawgers May 4

Pretty uneventful, but a decent character study, nonetheless. I ended up fast-forwarding through large parts of it, as Organ's interrupting and droning on weighed on me (I can sympathize with David in that regard). Nowhere near as enthralling as 'Tickled'. I would not recommend this film to anyone who doesn't personally know Michael Organ, as it is a waste of time watching David try to craft a story out of a run-of-the-mill narcissistic liar's tall tales.

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Steven D

01/25/2025

Farrier comes out as being a bit desperate and needy by the end at best….as a bit of a bully at worst. Overblown and trying to be something much bigger than what it is; a story about a pathetic little man.

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Rosina T

12/24/2024

Michael Organ was my next door neighbour 2008-2010. While I thought he was somewhat eccentric and unstable, I don’t think what happened to Farrier in his encounters with Michael warrants a doco. Clearly Michael isn’t the full quid and Farrier should’ve just left him alone.

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Daniel B

@observor 11/04/2024

Showing a guy who may or may not be on the straight and narrow does not a documentary make. This very much felt like something personal, and amounted to a lot of insinuations about bad behavior and not much of substance. There's lots of questionable people in the world, they don't all need documentaries about them. A waste of time.

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Shawn T

06/01/2024

One of the most boring documentaries I’ve ever seen! The story around Michael Organ is just not that interesting to justify an entire documentary film. At best this is barely interesting enough for a piece in a local newspaper or tabloid magazine. The filmmaker David Farrier seems desperate at times in attempting to make this Michael character seem evil and sinister but in reality he just seems like he has a slight mental illness and somewhat of an annoying guy. No twists no surprises just an annoying guy annoying people around him. The fact that David Farrier thought this was a story that he needed years to tell says more about him as a filmmaker than it does about the mentality ill Michael Organ. Don’t waste your time on this film it’s just not good.

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Synopsis

Journalist and filmmaker David Farrier (Tickled, Dark Tourist) unwittingly stumbles into a game of cat and mouse with a mystery man creating havoc in his neighborhood, wheel-clamping cars at a local antique store. That clamper was Michael Organ, and little did Farrier know that delving deeper into who Organ really is would be a thrilling and tension-filled three-year-long investigation -- unearthing a trail of multiple court cases, inflated claims of royal bloodlines, ruined lives, and at least one stolen boat.

Director: David Farrier
Producer: Alex Reed, Emma Slade, Ant Timpson, David Farrier
Distributor: Drafthouse Films
Production Co: Firefly Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 6, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 21, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.1K
Runtime: 1h 36m

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