I Am
“The shift is about to hit the fan.”
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.
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Marc Ian Barasch
Self
Coleman Barks
Self
Noam Chomsky
Self
Known for
America: Imagine the World Without Her
John Francis
Self
Lynne McTaggart
Self
Also in
The Supernatural: The Mysterious Potential of the Soul
Lighting the Path
Tom Shadyac
Self
Also in
Jocks
Magnum, P.I.
Desmond Tutu
Self
Also in
Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle
Children of the Light
Howard Zinn
Self
Also in
Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth
Psywar
Mahatma Gandhi
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Assassinations That Changed the World
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
Tom Shadyac Director · Jennifer Abbott Editor
United States release December 2, 2010 · Produced in United States
Production
Flying Eye Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 1, 2010
Premiere · The Hamptons Film Festival
United States · December 2, 2010
Limited theatrical · International Buddhist Film Festival
United States
February 11, 2011 · Theatrical
Brazil
February 4, 2011 · Premiere
Netherlands
May 22, 2013 · Physical
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