In virtue of these, many myths were created mostly involving his repressed homosexuality and his depression due to a car accident that left severe facial lacerations requiring plastic surgery.

[3] Directed by his nephew Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon, the film examines the inconsistent narratives from countless biographies which reduced his legacy and created labels like “tragically self-destructive” and “tormented”.

Ben Sachs from Chicago Reader wrote that the intense focus in demystifying some of Clift's biographies rather than facts about Clift's involvement in classics such as Red River, I Confess and Wild River are "frustrating", but conclude that "his nephew does an admirable job assembling the truth".

[7] In his column in TheWrap website Dan Callahan wrote that although there has not yet been a narrative biopic on the actor's life the documentary "should be consulted as a more realistic picture of this committed, very loving and sophisticated artist who was forced to make very few compromises.

", he also called the title "provocative" because "it has a double meaning" and according to him "to “make” someone, in old-fashioned slang, is to sleep with them, but this is also a movie about the making of Clift's posthumous image, and Robert Clift very carefully separates fact from fiction or misrepresentation here, clearing away most of the sub-Freudian interpretation of his uncle's life that seemed reasonable or fashionable 40 years ago.