I am full movie tom shadyac biography
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I Am
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From the director of LIAR LIAR, NUTTY PROFESSOR, BRUCE ALMIGHTY and ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE comes a surprisingly powerful and inspirational film! inom Am is the story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experiences a life threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: "What's wrong with our world?" and "What can we do about it?" With a spelfilm crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists (Howard Zinn, Lynn McTaggart, Desmond Tutu, efternamn Harmann, Coleman Barks) searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all of the other problems, while simultaneously reflecting on his own life choices of excess, greed and eventual healing. What if the solution to the world's problems was right in front of us all along?
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Tom Shadyac is Not Your Typical Hollywood Director
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Acclaimed filmmaker and communication professor Tom Shadyac gave up his wealth and found that less really is more.
Who Are You? There are so many ways for people to answer this simple question and define themselves by their profession, citizenship, age group, or gender. Or when answering more specifically one might say, “I am” a mother, a son, a homeowner, a car driver, a soccer fan, an amateur photographer, or even a rare coin collector.
Tom Shadyac is an adjunct professor of communication at Seaver College, an acclaimed film director, producer, writer, cycling enthusiast, adventurer, American, comedian, friend, and much more. But despite a hugely successful film career that afforded him all the luxuries he could want as the director and producer of such smash hit films as The Nutty Professor, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, andBruce Almighty, Shadyac decided that he didn’t want to be described as
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I Am (2010 American documentary film)
2010 American film
| I Am | |
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| Directed by | Tom Shadyac |
| Written by | Tom Shadyac |
| Produced by | Jennifer Abbott Dagan Handy |
| Narrated by | Tom Shadyac |
| Cinematography | Roko Belic |
| Edited by | Jennifer Abbott |
Production | Homemande Canvas Productions |
| Distributed by | Flying Eye Productions (North America) Universal Pictures (International)[1] |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
I Am is a 2010 American documentary film written, directed, and narrated by Tom Shadyac. The film asks the question: "What is wrong with the world, and what can we do about it?", and explores Shadyac's personal journey after a bicycling accident in 2007 which led him to the answers "the nature of humanity",[2] "the world's ever-growing addiction to materialism", and "human connections".[3] Shot