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Event
Screening of I AM
I AM - May 7-12
Saturday 6:00pm
Sunday 6:00pm
Monday 6:00pm
Tuesday 6:00pm
Wednesday 7:00pm
Thursday 6:00pm
What if the solution to the world's problems was right in front of us all along?
Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it.
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.
Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a small crew to film his adventures, Shadyac set out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment. Meeting with a variety of thinkers and doersremarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faithincluding such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks, and Marc Ian Barasch Shadyac appears on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig. An irrepressible "Everyman" who asks tough questions, but offers no easy answers, he takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways. The result is a fresh, energetic, and life-affirming film that challenges our preconceptions about human behavior while simultaneously celebrating the indomitable human spirit.
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LocationThe Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center
49 Touro St.
Newport, RI 02840
United States
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SMITHFIELD, RI United States
May 09, 2011 7:12 PM |
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SMITHFIELD, RI United States
May 09, 2011 7:12 PM |
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Portsmouth, RI United States
May 08, 2011 8:59 PM |
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Portsmouth, RI United States
May 08, 2011 8:59 PM |
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Portsmouth, RI United States
May 08, 2011 8:59 PM |
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Portsmouth, RI United States
May 08, 2011 8:59 PM |
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Portsmouth, RI United States
May 08, 2011 8:59 PM |
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Taunton, MA United States
May 06, 2011 11:33 AM |
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Taunton, MA United States
May 06, 2011 11:33 AM |
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Westport, MA United States
May 06, 2011 10:35 AM |
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Westport, MA United States
May 06, 2011 10:35 AM |
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Kingston, RI United States
May 06, 2011 8:22 AM |
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Kingston, RI United States
May 06, 2011 8:22 AM |
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