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A troubled 15-year-old boy attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother sets out to research Dr. Max Gerson's claims of a diet that can cure cancer as his first assignment for home-schooling in this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel (Avalanche, Dying to Have Known). Garrett is a boy who has always been close to nature. He lives on a reserve with a menagerie of orphaned animals, and over the years he's become especially sensitive to the nutritional needs of the diet-sensitive
Nov 26, 2008 Limited
Mar 15, 2011
Cinema Libre
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It's Michael Moore without the truculence, PBS without the pretension, CNN without the commercial grandstanding.
Comes off mostly like a hybrid of retro-style educational film and late-night infomercial.
The Beautiful Truth is a documentary about contemporary health hazards and alternative treatments.
There may be truth in what Kroschel says, but you won't find it in this pedantic film, which has all the veracity of a late-night TV infomercial.
While docu's claims and criticism yield nothing especially new, the form of their exposition seems singularly ingenious, stylistically falling somewhere between a 1950s educational film and some sort of Norman Rockwellian infomercial.
Kroschel positions The Beautiful Truth as a sort of instructional video for young people on the merits of eating healthy, but its creepy messianic vibe is far more toxic than all the pollutants in all the processed food you could ever consume.
Caveat emptor really applies here, because your health is at stake. Do your research, do your homework, and use common sense.
[A] condescending, manipulative film.
A powerful documentary that offers both a chilling expose of the toxins in our food that are causing so much disease and an affirmation of a plant-oriented therapy that has cured cancer in many individuals.
An unusual and sobering documentary which turns conventional wisdom about health matters on its head.
Boring like a one-note school lecture but nevertheless is credible as it makes its case about the need for alternative medicines.
The picture carries an element of nostalgia and yet thunders down too hard with a lot of one-sided perspectives.
The director's suggestion that big pharmaceutical companies have no interest in actually curing cancer is credible, but the film itself unfortunately makes Kroschel's beliefs come off like just so much hippie propaganda.
The end result not only constitutes an uncomfortable--dare I say, inorganic--collusion of fact and fiction but also suggests we're being indoctrinated into a cult.
Quack or saint? Dr. Gerson, whose work in allegedly curing cancer by alternative means, is highlighted in a light, even convincing way.
Amazing movie. The information that the Alaskan teenager discovered is simply mind blowing. The movie also shows how certain corporations do not care about people.
June 5, 2010
If you enjoy Documentary type films, then this is a must see. Overlooking it's flaws to the simple points trying to be conveyed in the film, it is food for thought.
May 4, 2010
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