7 Things We Learned From the New Documentary About Heath Ledger

The closing credits to the new documentary I Am Heath Ledger are accompanied by a recording of its subject, being asked by an interviewer what he would make of a movie about his life. “I think it would be a pretty boring movie,” he responds with a laugh. Nine years after the actor’s untimely death at 28 from an accidental, lethal combination of prescription medications, such a movie has arrived, and it is hardly boring.