Jeff Goldblum’s Next Role Is the Man Who Tried to Perfect Lobotomies in Rick Alverson’s ‘The Mountain’

Rick Alverson’s films don’t tend to lend themselves to easy elevator pitches or punchy plot descriptions, and the “Entertainment” and “The Comedy” filmmaker’s ambitious next film, “The Mountain,” keeps with that trend.

When it was first announced, the period drama, which he wrote alongside Dustin Guy Defa and Colm O’Leary, was billed as the story of “a young man who lost his mother and was raised by his emotional stunted father goes to work with his mentor, a doctor who performs lobotomies and shock therapy.”And while’s that a relatively meaty description of an Alverson film, it’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Just ask the guy playing that lobotomy-giving doctor: Jeff Goldblum.The actor, who’s next heard in this week’s “Isle of Dogs,” has a packed schedule, including both big budget sequels like “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” and the intriguing “The Mountain.

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