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Documentary, Music  •  2025  •  105 min

Matter of Time (2025)

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Matter of Time (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Not Rated
Political: Center
Diversity: Not Rated
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
8.3

Overview

Matter of Time follows the fight to cure epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and painful genetic skin disorder, using Eddie Vedder's Seattle benefit concert as its emotional and musical spine. The documentary centers on real families, researchers, and patients, portraying devoted parents and tight-knit communities working toward a medical breakthrough. That portrait of family resilience pulls slightly traditional. The progressive lean comes mainly from the documentary's philanthropic framing and its implicit argument that collective action and scientific investment can solve problems that individual families cannot bear alone. There is no political messaging, no identity-politics framing, and no religious content. The label is mild and reflects the overall cultural temperature of cause-driven music documentaries more than any single strong signal.

Starring Cast

Eddie Vedder

Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Not Rated

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: High

The film's central subject is the scientific and philanthropic campaign to cure a rare genetic skin disorder, a topic without strong inherent partisan valence; its narrative emphasizes private initiative, medical progress, and human stories over any ideological framing.

Diversity: Not Rated

The film is a documentary centered on live performances and efforts to address a rare medical condition, featuring real participants without any fictional character recasting or thematic focus on identity critiques.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High

The documentary centers on biological families—primarily parents and their children—coping with the daily realities of a severe genetic disease, portraying their caregiving, emotional bonds, resilience, and collective fight for a cure in a uniformly positive light. This framing of devoted parental roles, family unity under hardship, and multigenerational community support without any critique of traditional structures yields a leans-traditional rating.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film is a documentary about families, doctors, and scientists fighting to cure the rare genetic skin disease Epidermolysis Bullosa, featuring Eddie Vedder's music, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film is a documentary chronicling efforts to cure the rare skin disease epidermolysis bullosa through families, researchers, and Eddie Vedder's involvement, with no transgender characters or themes depicted.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

Matter of Time is a documentary about Eddie Vedder's real-life benefit concerts and efforts to cure Epidermolysis Bullosa, featuring actual participants with no fictional characters, adaptations, or legacy roles that could involve gender swaps.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Matter of Time is a documentary chronicling real efforts to cure the genetic disease EB, centered on Eddie Vedder's benefit concerts and featuring actual patients, families, scientists, and participants as themselves.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.3

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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8.0
The Movie Database logo
8.5

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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