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I AM
April 26, 2012  | By David Bianculli

OWN, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

This 2011 film is by writer and director Tom Shadyac, who directed Ace Ventura, Pet Detective and looks a little like “Weird Al” Yankovic. It sounds like a remake of Sullivan’s Travels: a filmmaker who makes hit comedy movies has an epiphany and hits the road in search of greater truth. Except this is a documentary, and Shadyac isn’t kidding. Instead, he took some of his Hollywood profits and underwrote this very personal movie, in which he travels the world and poses the same two questions to the likes of Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky: “What’s wrong with the world?” and “What can we do about it?” My answers, though Shadyac didn’t ask me: 1) Jersey Shore, and 2) as Lot’s wife reportedly was advised, “Don’t look.”

 
 
 
 
 
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