The Pathological Optimist

Name: The Pathological Optimist
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-09-29
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Andrew Wakefield, Carmel Wakefield, Brendan McBride, William Parrish, James Wakefield

September 29, 2017
Directed by
Miranda Bailey

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.