American Cannibal: The Road to Reality

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American Cannibal is a scathing, funny exploration of America's obsession with constructed realism and fame.

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Movie Info

Filmmakers document the production and demise of a proposed reality-TV series, in which contestants are told that one of their number will be eaten.

Cast & Crew

Perry Grebin
Director
Michael Nigro
Director
Perry Grebin
Producer
Denis Jensen
Producer
Michael Nigro
Producer
Lloyd Groveman
Executive Producer
Ed Litwak
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Mike Riley
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Corey Ribotsky
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Kenneth D. Yellin
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Critic Reviews for American Cannibal: The Road to Reality

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    August 22, 2007 | Rating: 0/4

    Lou Lumenick

    New York Post

  • The real savagery is in the satire, coldly measuring the lengths to which contestants might go and the depths to which the protagonists sink.

    April 27, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Michael Ordoña

    Los Angeles Times

  • Reality television is painful enough to watch at home, let alone on the big screen, but directors Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro somehow didn't get the message.

    April 17, 2007

    Frank Scheck

    Hollywood Reporter

  • American Cannibal is ostensibly about the phony, exploitative nature of reality TV, and though documentarians Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro hit that point too hard by piling up interviews with TV experts who speak in exaggerated cautionary tones,

    April 5, 2007 | Rating: B+

    Noel Murray

    AV Club

  • To the film's credit, it's finally a whistle-blower on unsafe shooting practices, not unsafe dining habits.

    March 17, 2007 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…

    Joshua Rothkopf

    Time Out

  • Until everything collapses, and the filmmakers are left grasping at straws, it's absorbing in a sick way.

    March 16, 2007 | Rating: 3/5

    Stephen Holden

    New York Times
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