I Am (III) (2010)

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.

Director:

Tom Shadyac

Stars:

Ray Anderson, Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Ray Anderson	...	Himself
Marc Ian Barasch	...	Himself
Coleman Barks	...	Himself
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
John Francis	...	Himself
Thom Hartmann	...	Himself
Chris Jordan	...	Himself
Dacher Keltner	...	Himself
Rollin McCraty	...	Himself
Lynne McTaggart	...	Herself
Daniel Quinn	...	Himself
Dean Radin	...	Himself
Elisabet Sahtouris	...	Herself
Marilyn Schlitz	...	Herself
Richard Shadyac	...	Himself

Storyline

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.

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Plot Keywords:

yogurt | technician | two word title | love | spirituality | 

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Taglines:

What if the solution to the world's problems was right in front of us all along?

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Shady Acres Entertainment [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

February 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ben

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$39,690 (USA) (11 March 2011)

Gross:

$1,571,355 (USA) (1 July 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Flying Eye Productions, Homemade Canvas Productions, Shady Acres Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Tom Shadyac described making the documentary as "freeing", giving himself complete creative control along with his small crew.

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Quotes

Tom Shadyac: An ocean, a rainforest, the human body, are all co-operatives. The redwood tree doesn't take all the soil and nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share, we call it: cancer.

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Connections

Features The Nutty Professor (1996)

User Reviews

Finally, science proves the mystics are right!

For years we've been told that there is a schism that exists between mystic spirituality and hard cold provable facts from western science. One of the key elements that this film provides, is the fusion of these two, seemingly disparate, orientations to life.

It turns out that love and cooperation are in our genes, that our connection to all life can be measured and proved and that when anything in nature takes more than it needs, it becomes sick; "cancerous" is the movie's term for it.

The need for balance between enjoying our human experience while maintaining our connection to God is at the heart of it all.

This documentary flies in the face of what we, in the USA, would use as a measuring stick for how successful we are in life; more stuff does not mean more happiness.

A great film and definitely worth seeing.