One Helluva Ride

Michael Douglas tells his story in full for the first time in One Helluva Ride, tracing a fractured childhood, his complicated bond with Kirk Douglas, and the long road from being dismissed as a “TV actor” to becoming one of Hollywood’s defining stars.

He revisits twelve landmark films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Traffic and Behind the Candelabra, alongside behind-the-scenes stories, an Oscar win at 31, and a career that reshaped modern cinema.

Douglas is equally direct about life off-screen: addiction, rehab, prison, stage IV cancer, infidelity, his first marriage, and the enduring love story with Catherine Zeta Jones. Raw, funny and vulnerable, this is the uncensored account of a remarkable life.