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7.6
Genres are Document Produced in 2010, USA, Australia
Available Quality: DivX
Rating: 7.6 out of 10 (701 votes)
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624x352 | 700 MiB |
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| Actors | |||
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| Joe Cross | Phil Riverstone | ||
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| Unknown | |||
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Plot Summary:
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldnt end well- with one foot already in the grave, the other wasnt far behind. FAT, SICK NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joes personal mission to regain his health. With doctors and conventional medicines unable to help long-term, Joe turns to the only option left, the bodys ability to heal itself. He trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days. Across 3,000 miles Joe has one goal in mind To get off his pills and achieve a balanced lifestyle. While talking to more than 500 Americans about food...
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David O'Brien
25 May 2012
A celebration of life and the steps needed to live life to the full
What started out as an easy going documentary about a juice diet, endsup being something altogether more profound and life affirming. We meetJoe Cross, a very likable Aussie who travels to the States, the home ofjunk food, to start a juice only diet, with a juicer hooked up to hiscar battery and a vast array of fruit and veg. He decides to hangaround outside some of the fast food places he used to frequent. Healso interviews people he meets about their diets or lack of them andtheir anticipated life expectancies. Most of the results are shocking.Most of the overweight people don't think they have the willpower tochange, and in some cases are accepting that they will die in their50s. Joe sticks with his diet for 60 days, and he manages to lose a lotof weight. The film becomes more profound when he meets Phil Staples, atruck driver with even bigger weight issues than Joe. He reaches outand asks Joe for help. The results are staggering. Joe's weight loss isexcellent, but Phil's eventual weight loss is even more spectacular.Phil becomes an advocate for the juice diet and turns his life around360. Overall this film is life affirming and touching. It espouses thebenefits of a simpler diet, and is a celebration of life rather than asermon. It's worth watching. Not sure I would be brave enough to trythat diet though. Maybe when I hit 400 pounds !
Eric M. Van
24 May 2012
Inspirational, Educational ... Above All, Entertaining
The average American devotes just 5% of their diet to fruits andvegetables. A documentary which attempts to convince us that that lowpercentage is all but killing us -- that sounds like it might besomewhat of a slog. Framed as the story of a man who, by temporarilypushing that 5% all the way to 100%, not only lost a ton of weight, butapparently cured himself of autoimmune disorder -- well, that soundsinspirational and hence eminently watchable. (In fact, it's thrillinglyinspirational, with a twist I won't reveal even if the summary abovedoes.) But FAST, SICK AND NEARLY DEAD takes it a step further. Aftershooting 500 hours of footage, director and subject Joe Cross enlistedKurt Engfehr as co-writer and Chris Seward as co-editor -- both haveworked with Michael Moore. The result is a documentary that manages tokeep the personal and intimate tone of a self-motivated and financedproject while being unfailingly entertaining, thanks tostate-of-the-art storytelling.Cross has stated that his goal with this film is to ultimately increasethat 5% for fruits and vegetables to 10%. Of course, the odds areagainst anything becoming a cultural phenomenon, against anything beingthat influential ... but this film is good enough that it has a realshot. You can think of SUPER-SIZE ME as the statement of the problem;if there's any justice this film will be just as successful as aproposal of one possible solution. This earns 9/10 simply as film --and gains a final star because the story it tells is so important.Note: this review includes some information provided by Joe Crossduring the Q&A following an advance screening ... from which I've justreturned!Postscript, June: While I haven't done the "reboot" Joe advocates inthis film, I've been inspired to go from eating about 3 servings offruits and vegetables a day to about 10, and I've lost 9 pounds withouttrying (since the healthy food is replacing sweet and salty snacks).And I had known this was the correct thing to do for years: I was justnever motivated to do it. This film *will* change your life.
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