May I Be Frank (2010) User Reviews

Inspiring movie

[iewele · 8/10 · 26 April 2016]

A very inspiring movie, calling to action. It gives you many insights how to take care of yourself, to love, and not to be afraid of all the rocks coming in your way to transformation.

It took for Frank 42 days to start and see the effects of his transformation; for most of us it might take a bit longer, but it is wonderful to see and learn :)

Inspiring, that once you start to chose to love your body and take care of it, you can feel it on your soul and mind. Day after day, not easily and moving in small steps, that can make you happier.

Iewele

Incredible movie!

[danielkeough · 9/10 · 15 November 2010]

It is wonderful to see how much care and love the various people in the movie have for a person they don't yet know, Frank. I really enjoyed how they really allowed someone to be human on camera. It was natural and real.

What was missing is really much focus on the FOODS that were utilized. Which foods did Frank start to enjoy? What happened to that black plastic bag full of fridge/freezer food (compost?) from his home? The love and respect was part of the transformation, but the quality, nourishing foods, though extremely important, seemed nearly absent in this film. Okay, he did the wheatgrass thing---but what else? In this screening, I heard not a single tune by the wonderful band the Makepeace brothers, of which one of the MAIN Characters is a part of! Their harmonies were notably absent. Perhaps this and the info on dietary changes can be adjusted for future screenings.

Go see it! It sold out the show I went to (and at least another night), and I also observed many people picking up the DVD **AFTER** they watched the film, which I feel is a very meaningful. How many great movies have you seen that you wouldn't want to watch again, even a year later? Many people, I'm sure, wanted to gift it or watch it again with a loved one.

Wonderful transformation

[OneAnjel · 10/10 · 14 April 2024]

I enjoyed this film. It's interesting to note it was released the same year as the more well-known film called Fat sick and nearly Dead (a phrase from a raw vegan book from the '80s). I'm not sure why one was so popular and the other one seems so obscure except that Joe Cross has a lot of money and made sure to Market it heavily. Because otherwise these two films are really about the same thing. I've studied raw vegan living for almost 20 years now, maybe longer, and I know that juicing and eating raw vegan are in fact paths to allowing your body to heal itself. They are what places like hypocrites and Optimum Health Institute use. The Gratitude Cafe is a very unique Institution. I like the ones in LA better where, to my knowledge, they are fully raw while San Francisco and a much more questionable version in Santa Cruz both offer cooked food as well as raw. I have the recipe book as well as the Business model book the owners offer near the cash register.

I do wish they had shown more of what Frank was eating here. The Gratitude Cafe has a great menu that I also would have liked to have seen more of, and a lot of these recipes are things you can learn to make yourself.

It's very honorable that these young men took Frank under their wing, and I know that at the end of the film we see a lot of people dedicated their time, finances, or businesses to make sure the film was produced. I'm sad to think that they didn't include Marketing in all that they accomplished here. As someone who studied marketing and small business, I think they could have really marketing this to several different demographics.

Someone asked what did they do with the composting from Frank's refrigerator. Well I can tell you that is not composting and it went straight to the garbage. You cannot compost processed denatured junk. It'll just sit there. Some people know what I'm talking about - there's an actual study that was done where a McDonald's hamburger and fries was put under glass for several months, and at this point it's going on several years, and it looks exactly the same as the day it was served. But I digress.

It's really exciting to see all the different levels of change that Frank goes through here, not the least of which is 47 lb. Truly if you do wheatgrass and mostly juicing and smoothies you can lose significant weight in a short amount of time but it has to be raw vegan because those are the foods that give your cells the nutrients they need. Kudos to everyone involved.

Ironically I had not seen this film before despite my studies and despite the fact that it's mentioned in a book I've had on my shelf for over 10 years called The Raw cure by Jacoby.

Cheers.