I Am

Name: I Am
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 11, 2011
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 38

2011

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Paladin (II) | Release Date: March 11, 2011 | Unrated

Summary: I AM, a probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac’s first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” and “Bruce Almighty” to his credit. I AM recounts whatI AM, a probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac’s first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” and “Bruce Almighty” to his credit. I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged a changed man. Disillusioned with life on the A-list, he sold his house, moved to a mobile home community, and decided to start life anew. (Shady Acres Entertainment)… Expand

Director: Tom Shadyac

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 76 min

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Joe Williams

Apr 29, 2011

Although the choice of interviewees skews the movie in a New Age-y direction, there's less pseudoscience and more heart than in the kindred documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know?" Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Mar 9, 2011

Documentaries have been coming down on humanity so hard in recent years -- from "An Inconvenient Truth" to the latest Oscar winner, "Inside Job" -- that it's refreshing to bask in a bit of optimism coming from a nonfictional film. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Amy Nicholson

Feb 18, 2011

Shadyac spins cooperation in a different direction. I Am takes the sharing instinct as proof that all living beings are interconnected. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Apr 21, 2011

Give Shadyac credit: He sells his Pasadena mansion, starts teaching college and moves into a mobile home (in Malibu, it's true). Now he offers us this hopeful if somewhat undigested cut of his findings, in a film as watchable as a really good TV commercial, and just as deep. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Mar 10, 2011

Shadyac didn't need to channel his angst into narrative fiction: He just needed to look in the mirror to find a symbol of Hollywood's arrogance and misplaced priorities. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Mar 24, 2011

While I Am has its boogeymen - especially the rich, the racist and the ultra-competitive - Shadyac implicates himself whenever possible. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Apr 21, 2011

It's hard to decide what rankles most: what an astonishing monument to Shadyac's self-absorption I Am is, or how flat-out bad – incompetent, even – the filmmaking is. Read full review

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Reizar

Jun 5, 2012

The film lacks quality, true actors, and a decent motive. I AM not going to recommend this to anyone with a brain. It seems that director Tom Shadyac should probably stay out of the documentary film industry.

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