15. The Doors
TriStar Pictures
The Drugs: Alcohol, mescaline, LSD, psilocybin, heroin Val Kilmer may well have spent the last decade or so wallowing in the "where are they now?" hinterlands, but there was a time when he was one of the hottest talents in Hollywood. His performance as The Doors front-man Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's 1991 epic stands as a reminder that he had the potential to become one of the acting greats. While The Doors often struggles with maintaining its relentlessly kaleidoscopic tone - particularly considering the duration, weighing in at nearly 2 and a half hours long - Kilmer's performance holds it all together, a close fascimile to the man himself both in appearance and mannerisms. Morrison's increasing fascination with the mystical and spiritual - spurred on by his use of entheogenic drugs - is presented with some memorable desert tripping scenes which have been parodied a number of times since, and while Morrison's quasi-philosophical musings come across as pretentious rather than profound, it remains the most fitting tribute yet to a band which helped to define psychedelia and the counterculture movement of the 1960s.