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 is often cited as an example of a documentary that exploits its subject, but if you watch this and can only laugh at Mark Borchardt, that's on you. I'd hate to live in a world where his story isn't told.

This movie plays so much better for me now than it did in 1999, when I just saw it as an uncomfortable, mocking portrayal of a couple of awkward stoners trying and sort-of-succeeding at making a movie. Watching it now, I realize how rich a character study it is, and how much viewers get to learn about the lives of these men, and what filmmaking means to them. It comes across as friendly and understanding rather than sneering, but it acknowledges that not everyone is cut out to make the Great American Movie.

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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 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!

If Ed Wood is Apocalypse Now, this is Hearts of Darkness.

The best movie ever made about Wisconsin. An alcoholic up to his eyeballs in debt shirking all other responsibilities to follow a dream few believe in.

Slice of life. Two years of this dood's struggle to make his art, despite the world around him telling him, "eh". A friend along for the ride, perfectly foiling the brash determination of our protagonist with his soft giggle fits. The accents. The landscapes.

I usually wasn't sure whether to laugh, cringe, or well up with tears. This doc is kind of a masterpiece.

Are you shitting me? I thought this was a mockumentary.

This movie is for all of those people who are just about to give up on their dreams and yet continue to push no matter the outcome. A documentary that features obsession, debt, family struggle, financial struggle, a love triangle, dreams, alcohol, friends, the Packers, one of the best screams in movie history and more. Oh and it won the Jury Prize at Sundance. Keep pushing for your dreams no matter the outcome.

Dreams, mediocrity, life, death, talent, bills, drugs, music, family, scratch-off's, football, jail, beer, films, jobs, drive, success, failure, reality, friendship, America, truth...

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American Movie.

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Probably the best American movie. We're all born the wrong time, the wrong place, some worse than others, with dreams more wrong than right but that doesn't stop Mark Borchardt. For anyone who won't quit anything (even the bad things). This is it.

Deeply depressing yet terrifyingly funny, this documentary about a zero-budget auteur with no prospects and delusions of grandeur cuts deep. - ▲