I Am (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:

Tom Shadyac, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky

2 wins.

Cast

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

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:

two word title | love | cooperation | technician | laboratory | 

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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

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 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

User Reviews

Good moral premise falls flat & insulting

I like the moral premise and idea that all life is connected and happiness is not directly related to money once basic needs are met, but when the filmmaker resorts to pseudoscience trickery he alienates me . Somethings can't or don't need to be proved.The filmmaker shows yogurt with meter probes "reading" his feelings.The next one that got me was the"random number generators that all stopped when there was a major catastrophe. What they are used for anyway? Why they stopped did not impress me.What does a computer care about a tsunami? Is it alive? If you want to prove something with science you have to show more data. So if you want a show that starts with a nice warm cooperative premise and ends with trickery this is a good "bait and switch" for you.

PS:Happiness is living in a Malibu beach mobile home with 10 million in the bank and a career in Hollywood film directing.Does that compare to the the average struggling person in a mobile home park with no other options? Now I must stop myself.

Details

Official Sites:

Shady Acres Entertainment [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

February 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

I Am

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$10,092, 20 February 2011

Gross USA:

$1,591,034

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,591,034

Company Credits

Production Co:

Flying Eye Productions, Homemade Canvas Productions, Shady Acres Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Color:

Color