Reel Paradise

Name: Reel Paradise
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 17, 2005
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 63

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: August 17, 2005 | R

Summary: Reel Paradise tells the story of John Pierson's family at the end of a year-long adventure on a remote island in Fiji where they ran the 180 Meridian Cinema, showing free movies to the locals. (Wellspring Media)

Director: Steve James

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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Michael Phillips

Since Reel Paradise doesn't make the mistake of lionizing Pierson while it keeps up with him and his family, the results stay with you, like memories of an unexpected and surprising vacation. Read full review

Marc Savlov

True, the melodrama on display here can't compare to the likes of Larry, Moe, Curly, and the cannibals, but then this goofily charming quartet of Western outsiders is far more real than reel. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The Piersons went, they showed movies, they returned. Taveuni is more or less the same. But by living and coping together for a year, the family is probably stronger and richer. Read full review

Desson Thomson

A documentary that uses Pierson's self-congratulatory mission to explore a deeper story about cultural clashes and the complex dynamics of the modern American family. Read full review

Kevin Crust

The uproarious laughter that floats from the cinema wonderfully illustrates the universality of the moviegoing experience. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Although it will most readily appeal to cinephiles…offers sufficient reality-based incident and ponderable cultural issues to attract curious audiences. Read full review

William Arnold

Pierson is a high-powered egotist with appalling tastes and a great-white-father complex, and his whiny family is about as much fun as fingernails on a blackboard. Read full review

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