Name: Nuts!
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-12-25T19:10:21-08:00
Rating: 94

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Nuts! lives up to its title in the best way, offering a delightfully unorthodox look at a bizarre -- and largely unexplored -- chapter in American history. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

The mostly true story of Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire with his goat-testicle impotence cure and a million-watt radio station.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Penny Lane
Producer:

James Belfer, Caitlin Mae Burke, Penny Lane, Daniel Shepard
Writer:

Thom Stylinski
Release Date (Theaters):

Jun 22, 2016 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 6, 2016
Runtime:

1h 19m

Cast & Crew

Gene Tognacci
Narrator

Andy Boswell
Voice

John Causby
Voice

Kelly Mizell
Voice

Jeff Pillars
Voice

Thom Stylinski
Voice

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Critic Reviews for Nuts!

All Critics (51) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (3)

Lane's loose, playful, collage-like treatment of the story sets just the right tone.

December 29, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Max Weiss
Baltimore Magazine
Director Lane and screenwriter Thom Stylinski take a lighthearted, folksy approach to telling Brinkley's life story

September 1, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle
Lane uses creative animation, archival footage and recordings - the good doctor apparently loved to be filmed - to tell an absolutely outrageous story of neediness, greed, delusion and gullibility.

July 29, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Tom Long
Detroit News
It's a daring formal gamble on Lane's part, but it doesn't completely work.

July 25, 2016 | Full Review…

Evan Kindley
The New Republic
It's flat-out exciting; really, how many documentaries can you say that about?

July 21, 2016 | Rating: 4.5/5

Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
I can't imagine anyone believing that goat glands transplanted into human reproductive organs could cure impotence, but as this lively, offbeat documentary proves, plenty of Americans did.

July 14, 2016 | Full Review…

Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
Lane takes advantage of non-fiction for petty and selfish reasons, which makes Lane not too far removed from her own subject.

May 22, 2019 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
Way Too Indie
Dr. John Romulus Brinkley Jr. had trouble with the truth.

May 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Michael J. Casey
Boulder Weekly
A surprising, strange, delightful film that's more than its strange premise would have you believe.

May 2, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Adam Patterson
Film Pulse
Simply a good time, rollicking as it revels in one Brinkley exploit after another.

November 8, 2018 | Full Review…

Stephen Saito
Moveable Fest
In a different director's hands, this film might be a tragedy about the Depression-era consumers who fell for Brinkley's schemes, but for the most part, it's a quirky comedy

August 18, 2017 | Full Review…

Kathy Fennessy
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Nuts! is such a fascinatingly goofy tale, with peekaboo plot elements popping out from every angle, that a straightforward documentary approach could never do it justice.

December 27, 2016 | Full Review…

Kelly Vance
East Bay Express