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I Am
Directed by
Tom Shadyac
Not Rated
2011
76m
Documentary
7.5
38%
80%
7.3
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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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Cast of I Am
Marc Ian Barasch
Self
Coleman Barks
Self
Noam Chomsky
Self
John Francis
Self
Lynne McTaggart
Self
Tom Shadyac
Self / Director
Desmond Tutu
Self
Howard Zinn
Self
Mahatma Gandhi
Self (archive footage)
Jennifer Abbott
Executive Producer / Editor
Dagan Handy
Producer
Jonathan Watson
Executive Producer
Nicole Pritchett
Associate Producer
Jacquelyn Zampella
Co-Producer
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Odin Benitez
Supervising Sound Editor
Alexander Brodie
Color Designer
I Am Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Whatever leaps of logic yawn in the film's poorly cobbled-together arguments are papered over by its wash of button-pushing images, from regimented soldiers and deadly explosions to flocks of wild geese and sunbeams breaking through the clouds.
Detroit News
Tom Long
I Am is looking for a little bit of hope in this world. Happily, it finds some. A great deal actually.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
An open heart can be a recipe for ridicule, particularly in a culture where consumption is mistaken for a moral imperative.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Happily, the frisky Shadyac does not sermonize. He is a puckish Sherpa to the frontiers of science and faith.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
It's hard to decide what rankles most: what an astonishing monument to Shadyac's self-absorption I Am is, or how flat-out bad -- incompetent, even -- the filmmaking is.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
A well-intentioned documentary that is just too unfocused, scattered, and philosophically thin to matter.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I'm not an ideal viewer for a documentary like "I Am," which involves the ingestion of Woo Woo in industrial bulk. When I see a man whose mind is being read by yogurt, I expect to find that man in a comedy starring, oh, someone like Jim Carrey.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A film about this problem should have some larger point to make, some narrative to construct, something personal to tell us. This film has only whiffs of each.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
Shadyac, energized by the thrill of engaging on big questions with great minds, has created an earnest if often incoherent patchwork on life's purpose and meaning.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
There are great filmmakers - Chris Marker and Nanni Moretti come to mind - whose cinematic essays render their first-person musings utterly compelling. Shadyac is not in their league.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
We're left wondering how Desmond Tutu wound up in this vanity project in the first place.
New York Times
Rachel Saltz
It's not just that Mr. Shadyac makes big leaps and sometimes papers over contradictions. It's also that after a while everyone starts to sound the same: a little beatific, a little high on wonder, a little platitudinous.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
In a heartfelt cinematic essay, Hollywood director Tom Shadyac declares "I Am" the source of humanity's problems. Considering he made "Patch Adams," I agree.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
An optimistic exploration of what's right and wrong with the world.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
What lifts the film above its dubious boilerplate assemblage of talking heads and archival images is Shadyac himself.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
What's wrong with the world? How do we go about fixing it? Is the fundamental nature of man essentially benevolent or cruel? These are all questions for either society's most profound philosophers, or the man who directed Ace Ventura.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
An earnest, lumpy macramé of a personal nonfiction project...
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Whatever case the subjects make for a more benevolent view of human nature, it's hard to avoid taking an oppositional stance to their testimony when it's being so relentlessly shoved down our throats.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Shadyac should be applauded for his quest. Whether the result amounts to anything is less clear.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Here's a rare feel-good documentary that earns its somewhat cockeyed optimism.
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