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Dominican Rep. American Movie documentary
- Original title
- American Movie
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 107 min.
- Country
United States- Director
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- Genre
- Documentary | Movie Documentary. Small Town Life (North-american). Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and not Hollywood, CA, the results are at times bizarre, comical, and very American. With the help of his mother, his 82-year old uncle, and a local cast of hilarious and lovable characters, filmmaker Mark Borchardt fights his way through internal and external roadblocks to achieve his goal--to make his movie, his way. Mark's vision for his dream film is unlike most in independent filmmaking today. His inspiration comes from films as disparate as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Seventh Seal, as well as his experiences growing up amidst the grey skies, rusty cars, and ranch houses of Milwaukee's Northwest side.
AMERICAN MOVIE is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, AMERICAN MOVIE is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.-
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1999: Sundance: Grand Jury Prize (Best Documentary)2000: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Producers Award1999: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.1999: Satellite Awards: nominated to Motion Picture, Documentary.
- Critics' reviews
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"Smith's gleeful, touching documentary records the agony and the ecstasy of realizing your dream, and intangible ways that such dreams help keep people alive."
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"A revealing, intimate, quirky and generous portrait of nothing less than the American Dream"
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"This unassuming, insistently entertaining documentary has the virtue of a great subject."
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"A revealing, heart- and mind-engaging insight into a uniquely American character type many of us may have known"
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"Of all the many documentaries that take you along on a movie shoot, one of my all-time favorites is this delightfully scrappy, sometimes poignant, often hilarious show."
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