No Vacancy (2005)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Michael Tobias

Writers:

Michael Tobias (book) and
Jane Gray Morrison (book) ...

Release Date:

2006 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

Global responses to the Human Population Explosion; impact on the environment and biodiversity. |

Plot Keywords:

Biogeography | Human Rights | Politics | Ecology | Environmental Issues

Cast

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi	...	Themselves
Kalpana Apte	...	Themselves
Rofina Asuru	...	Themselves
John Awoonor-Williams	...	Themselves
Gijs Beets	...	Themselves
Lester Brown	...	Themselves
Martha Campbell	...	Themselves
Joseph Chamie	...	Themselves
Bahram Delavar	...	Themselves
Javier del Olmo	...	Themselves
Paul Ehrlich	...	Themselves (as Dr. Paul Ehrlich)
Robert Engelman	...	Themselves
Christopher Flavin	...	Themselves
Bob Gillespie	...	Themselves
Duff Gillespie	...	Themselves
Ana Maria Goldani	...	Themselves
Elena Herrera	...	Themselves
Shirley Hufstedler	...	Themselves
Evert Ketting	...	Themselves
Alfonso Lopez-Juarez	...	Themselves
Firman Lubis	...	Themselves
Elizabeth Lule	...	Themselves
Zahra Majdfar	...	Themselves
Hossein Malek-Afzali	...	Themselves
Seyed Marandi	...	Themselves
Amir Mehryar	...	Themselves
Wouter Meijer	...	Themselves
Poonam Muttreja	...	Themselves
Margaret Neuse	...	Themselves
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid	...	Themselves
Suzanne Olds	...	Themselves
Saroj Pachauri	...	Themselves
Rishma Pai	...	Themselves
Sai Paranjpye	...	Themselves
Malcolm Potts	...	Themselves
Allan Rosenfield	...	Themselves
Meenakshee Shedde	...	Themselves
Javier Soto	...	Themselves
Joseph Speidel	...	Themselves
Michael Teitelbaum	...	Themselves
Sudha Tewari	...	Themselves
Michael Tobias	...	Themselves
Ricardo Vernon	...	Themselves
Marcela Villarreal	...	Themselves
Russ Vogel	...	Themselves
Don Weeden	...	Themselves

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

China

Company:

Iron Image

An even look at an important issue.

No Vacancy is a documentary about one of the world's most pressing, yet often ignored, issues; over population. It starts off saying that in our lifetime the the population of the earth is expected to soar well above 13 billion, a number most believe would be impossible to sustain. The movie brings the viewer around the world, examining how different cultures view reproduction, and the effects of that on family size. From India, to the US, to Iran, to Mexico, the movie is quite in depth, and in many cases surprising (especially in Iran). The film does something that is quite refreshing, considering many modern documentaries, and that is that it ends on an almost positive note. WHile much of the film is sad, frightening, and negative, in the end it points out that, while it sucks now, people have finally NOTICED it sucks, and begun to fix it. If that trend continues, which this film might help, the world might be okay!