American Movie (1999)
An account of a Midwestern filmmaker's effort to make an independent picture. Mark Borchardt is passionate about cinema, and his dream project is a film called "Northwestern". But he is serious debt, and decides that if he finishes his horror short "Coven", he will be able to finance his masterwork with the money he'll raise from video sales. His attempts to follow this plan involve his 82-year old uncle, his girlfriend and a series of dreadful jobs, but Mark will never give up.
This is for anyone who lives in a small town and dreams of making it big as a film director. The great thing about this documentary is it doesn't become subjective and biased as most docos and becomes its own story on the struggles and plight the main character goes through in order to achieve his one dream. The people/characters related to Mark and involved in his production, especially Mike are colorful, interesting and downright cool as they are always questioning on Mark's ability to succeed on his production and yet helps him anyway. You really do feel for Mark as he has everything going against him from problems in filmmaking to his life problems. This is such a rare and worthy gem to find.
4 out of 5 stars
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