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The documentary entitled I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, which chronicles a dark time in Joaquin Phoenix's life, will be released by Magnolia Pictures on September 10.

The film was shot by Casey Affleck, who also happens to be Phoenix's brother-in-law, during the actor's highly publicized meltdown just a couple years ago. Though the meltdown was rumored to be a hoax, Affleck’s movie will be released as a documentary, not a mockumentary.

"No matter what I thought coming in, I came out feeling this was a pretty amazing piece of work, jaw dropping but dimensional," Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles told Deadline. "It is a unique piece of work that is going to surprise people in different ways."

In one reported scene, Phoenix snorts cocaine off the breast of a stripper.

In the film, Affleck captures Phoenix's downward spiral, the most famous incident being when he appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman to promote his film Two Lovers. The actor sported a full beard and sun glasses, and the interview had some tense moments when it appeared Letterman thought the whole thing was a joke.

In October 2008, Phoenix, 35, announced that he was retiring from acting and that instead, he would pursue a rapping career.

"He makes music, you know, he was making music long before I made it," Affleck told ABC News in May. "It's out of left field for some people because a lot of people didn't know that about him."

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