Hilarious! Problem is, I don't know if it is meant to be hilarious, but I loved it. Mike's acid story had my wife and I rolling. It has some pretty quotable lines for a documentary, "downing peppermint schnapps and trying to call Moraco at 2am in the morning is not where you want to be" is a prime example. I love how eccentric Mark is, and no matter what was in his way he still carried on and barreled through the making of "Coven". I also love that Mike scored the film.

It is an experience for a documentary and I would suggest everyone check it out.

This movie is hilarious and inspiring. It is absolutely untouchable. I can pop this DVD in at any time and enjoy this film as much as I did the first time I saw it. One of my favourite films of all time.

This movie has to be seen to be believed. The tale of an wannabe-film maker putting together a low budget film with friends and family, all while another camera is capturing his wackiness, vices and screwball antics.

We all have a friend that has the drive for something, but always fails at nearly everything they set out to achieve. This documentary is for those people!

If you're after some hard laughs from one of the best documentaries you'll ever watch in your life, then this is for you!

A gloriously true to life exploration of the American Dream through the medium of independent movie production. The lead character evokes the dedication, deprivation and desperation at the heart of every aspiring filmmaker.

There are too many priceless moments in this to count. The interactions between everyone in the film are amazing. Love everything about this documentary.

"There's no excuses, Paul. No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse. No one has ever faced a black screen that says: "Well, if we had these set of circumstances, we would've shot this scene... so please forgive us and use your imagination." I've been to the movies hundreds of times. That's never occurred. "

Mark Borchardt is an artist and a dreamer and a true American hero. I love him and this film with all my heart. Probably the most inspiring film out there.

Much in the vein of Anvil, it's people trying to get a dream done by any means necessary even f it seems unreasonable and impossible. Here an uneducated film maker tries to get two movies done, one is a half an hour short he started working on 2 years before, the other a more dramatic self biographical piece, but he has really no way of doing so, so he begs and borrows to do it, and it's crazy to see how deep in the hole is willing to go, and once e is done with the first movie he doesn't really seem enthusiastic at all, or at least that's not captured, he's done with that and immediately moves on to the other one, it's weird.

I absolutely love this movie. I've seen this at least 5 times. Completely hilarious, bizarre and fascinating all at the same time.

As depressing as it is hilarious. Like a Christopher Guest movie if it was actually real. A must see for anybody aspiring to work in film.

Might go up there among my favorite docs of all-time, definitely had a lot of fun watching this one. The characters - especially Mark - seemed too good to actually be true. Funny, heartwarming, frustrating, depressing (knowing that he'll probably never really accomplish his dream of being a great filmmaker), but memorable more than anything.

"It's okay. It's alright. There's something to live for. Jesus told me so."

Movie #2 of Berkens 30 days, 30 countries challenge

American Movie- USA

A very fast-paced documentary full of colorful characters and a subject that should be inherently interesting to everyone that feels the need to share his film diary with the world. I still can't fully believe that this is not staged, the people on screen are just so entertaining in the way they play off each other, the way they tell their stories and the way that the scenes are cut together. An absolute blast.