American Cannibal: The Road to Reality

Name: American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 16, 2007
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 44

2007

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Lifesize Entertainment | Release Date: March 16, 2007

Summary: American Cannibal is a documentary as wild as the story behind it: a shocking, hilarious, bona fide portrait of our celebrity-driven culture and the appalling lengths we'll go to for entertainment. (Lifesize Entertainment)

Director: Michael Nigro and Perry Grebin

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 87 min

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Noel Murray

Still, no matter how Grebin and Nigro are selling it, American Cannibal isn't about the horrors of reality TV. It's about guys like Roberts and Ripley, who convince themselves that ANY job in show business would be preferable to waiting tables. Read full review

Marc Mohan

You'll suspect, and even hope, that what's on screen is a hoax, but it seems to be at the very least one version of the truth. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Whatever the project's "reality," it's insightful as well as entertaining, and the inclusion of real interviews with people both inside and outside the business means it functions as both an intelligent critique and a dire warning. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The documentary illustrates the premise that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Until everything collapses, and the filmmakers are left grasping at straws, it's absorbing in a sick way. Read full review

Jack Mathews

What's here is a glimpse not into how far people will go to win a reality TV show, but how far greedy writers and producers will go to degrade, debouch and enrich themselves. Read full review

Rob Nelson

American Cannibal, something like the (mock-)doc equivalent of "The Producers," really, really should've been funnier. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

The ineptly made Animal Cannibal isn't remotely convincing as reality, and worse, isn't remotely entertaining as fiction. Read full review

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ToddS

Jun 13, 2009

Funny film, VERY META! I wondered what happened to the girl all week until I saw it again. Thanks god for late night cable tv! I get it and it's good. Great film -- check it out, it's way underrated.

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ChrisC>

Apr 5, 2007

LOL... Awesome! I hope everybody got what they deserve.

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MoeS.

Mar 28, 2007

Saw this in N.Y. If you understand it, it's hilarious.

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DaveDave

Sep 23, 2007

Too many people didn't get this film. It's brilliant and meta on so many levels.

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