Unknown White Male

This is the true story of Doug Bruce who woke up on Coney Island with no memory of any day of his entire life. Sometime between 8pm on July 1st and 7am on July 2nd‚ 2002‚ Doug Bruce lost himself. That morning‚ riding alone on a New York subway headed towards Coney Island‚ he could not remember his name. Where he worked. Who his friends were. How much money he had in his bank account. He was without his identity.

UNKNOWN WHITE MALE is the true story of how Bruce‚ a successful former stockbroker‚ struggles to learn who he was and who he will become. The documentary‚ produced by Bruceís longtime friend‚ Rupert Murray‚ chronicles this profound journey. Two MRIs‚ two CAT scans‚ 26 blood tests and an army of psychiatrists cannot properly diagnose what turns out to be the rarest and most startling form of memory loss: retrograde amnesia. Was Bruce the victim of a robbery resulting in a slight head injury or the effects of a small cyst on his pituitary gland? Or was Bruce subconsciously reacting to the death of his mother a few years before? It is a testament to Murrayís smooth but honest narrative that the film asks all the right questions even if many of the answers remain elusive.