I Am

Name: I Am
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Tom Shadyac, Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky

20102010
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 18min

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 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 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.

7.5/10

3.7K

Director
- Tom Shadyac
Stars
- Tom Shadyac(uncredited)
- Desmond Tutu
- Noam Chomsky

Top credits

See production, box office & company info

Awards
- 2 wins

Videos2

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.

two word title love cooperation technician laboratory 2 more

Taglines
- What if the solution to the world's problems was right in front of us all along?
Genre
- Documentary
Certificate
- Not Rated
Parents guide

Trivia
Tom Shadyac described making the documentary as "freeing", giving himself complete creative control along with his small crew.

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.

Connections
Features Wall Street (1987)

Top review

6/10

Interesting But Rather General

Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what is wrong with our world and how we can improve both this world and the way we live in it.

I appreciate that Shadyac decided to look beyond the world of comedy and try to find a deeper truth in the world. He is an intelligent man and it is good to be able to see this side of him, because "Ace Ventura" does not necessarily suggest a man craving wisdom.

I also like some of the folks he sought out. There is clearly a liberal bias with Chomsky, Hartman and Zinn being the models, but it was still good to hear from these thinkers. What would the right-wing think tank members say on what is wrong with the world?

In the end, though, I give it a moderate rating because it never really gets in any depth. The question is vague, and without looking for specific answers, you cannot get the best advice. We all know the world is better if we love one another and pass on a smile, but what is the fundamental problem?

helpful•8