No Impact Man
Documentary
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2009
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Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
4 Sep 2009
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
No Impact Man is a very confused documentary that somehow puts its confusion to good use.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
1 Oct 2009
fresh:
This poignant, provocative documentary reduces the green movement to human scale -- and magnifies the size of mountain it's trying to climb.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
30 Sep 2009
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A strange yet riveting portrait of a marriage enduring a year spent making as little environmental impact as possible.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
24 Sep 2009
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Like reality TV, there are moments of drama that have an aura of awkward self-consciousness about them and incidents that feel, if not staged, at the very least orchestrated, amped up. But you have to hand it to Beavan and Conlin.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
24 Sep 2009
fresh:
It may not be the greatest of cinematic exercises, and it often feels contrived, but this documentary somehow is enlightening, ridiculous, foreboding and funny at the same time.
– David Lewis,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 Sep 2009