TV Junkie (2006)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Directors:

Michael Cain
Matt Radecki

Release Date:

23 May 2008 (Sweden)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Making Real Life Isn't Easy

Plot:

A man tries to discover his purpose in life after searching through 3000 hours of video and over 5000 photos.

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Marijuana Joint | Cigarette Smoking | Joint | Drug Addict

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Rick Kirkham	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Brokaw	...	Himself (archive footage)
James Brown	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Bush	...	Himself (archive footage)
Charles Dalaklis	...	Himself (as Chuck Dalaklis)
Bill O'Reilly	...	Himself (archive footage)
Dan Rather	...	Himself (archive footage)

Runtime:

Norway:89 min (TV version) | Brazil:107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Certification:

Sweden:7 | Norway:10 (TV rating)

Company:

Deep Ellum Pictures

Trivia:

Dallas area band Grandma Dynamite recorded a cover of Humble Pie's "99 Pounds" for the film, but the song was never used.

Movie Connections:

Features "Inside Edition" (1988)

Rip off Tarnation

This 'documentary' lifts all the home-bred editing techniques from Tarnation, and THAT wasn't even as great a film as people made it out to be. Cue indie guitar rock with a nostalgic tone, "iMovie" cue cards over nostalgic long lost photos, break cue cards into poetic nostalgic 'faux' symbolic sentences, follow a loser over his loser life as he wallows in nostalgic introspective narrative. Did I mention he was addicted to drugs? Argh, frustrating. Nobody really picked up on the glaring similarities, and the documentary was highly acclaimed and picked for the Jury Prize at Sundance, but I've had it up to here (imaginary line made with hand well above head level) with self righteous drug documentaries, no matter how hidden the self righteousness is. Tarnation was terrible in the same way.