I Am - the Movie Hot

What’s wrong with the world? What can we do about it? Tom Shadyac reflected deeply on these questions as he recovered from a near fatal accident. Embarking on a personal search for meaning, Tom left behind all the trappings of the considerable fortune he had amassed as a successful Hollywood producer and director. He decided to pose these questions to leading thinkers like Desmond Tutu, Thom Hartmann, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, and he shares the answers in a documentary called “I Am”, coming in February, 2011.
The film has the light touch you would expect of the director of such comedies as Bruce Almighty, The Nutty Professor, Ace Ventura and Patch Adams, but it also has the depth and integrity you would expect of a seeker of truth. As Tom Shadyac pieces together the answers, what emerges is a positive and hopeful vision of the real essence of human nature. It seems that as a species we are hard-wired to feel compassion and seek connection.
Never preachy, new agey or boring, the film demonstrates that we really are part of a greater collective. He shows scientific experiments that seem to prove that there is such a thing as the universal mind. Shadyac inspires us by how he has changed his own life, and is happier for it. I can’t think of a more positive film to serve as an antidote to the fears generated by the economy, war, politics and the approach of 2012. There is hope, and we are it.