I Am
The shift is about to hit the fan.
The shift is about to hit the fan.
Documentary
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2010
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I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.
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Runtime:
76 min
Release date:
2 Dec 2010
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Whatever leaps of logic yawn in the film's poorly cobbled-together arguments are papered over by its wash of button-pushing images, from regimented soldiers and deadly explosions to flocks of wild geese and sunbeams breaking through the clouds.
– Ronnie Scheib,
Variety,
13 Dec 2011
rotten:
What "I Am" is wanting is a sense that it actually wrestles with anything, that it can stand up to a contrary point of view that the film's 76 minutes are so utterly lacking.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 May 2011
fresh:
I Am is looking for a little bit of hope in this world. Happily, it finds some. A great deal actually.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
29 Apr 2011
fresh:
An open heart can be a recipe for ridicule, particularly in a culture where consumption is mistaken for a moral imperative.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
29 Apr 2011
fresh:
Happily, the frisky Shadyac does not sermonize. He is a puckish Sherpa to the frontiers of science and faith.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
28 Apr 2011