- Studio: IFC Films
- Release Date: Mar 16, 2001
- Summary: Tells the amazing story of 78-year old Tobias Schneebaum, one of the most charming, enigmatic and perplexing men ever captured on screen. A seemingly mild-mannered elderly Jewish New Yorker, Tobias is actually one of the most fearless adventurers of our time. (Next Wave Films)
- Director: David Shapiro
- Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary
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Positive: 13 out of 23
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Mixed: 9 out of 23
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100The film underscores the paradox in this man's life: the split between the mild-mannered New Yorker and the fearless vagabond who joined an Arakmbut hunting raid.
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80Meanders, dawdles, doubles back on itself but finally gets us somewhere fascinating and worthwhile.
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60Fascinating, if slightly unfocused, film.
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20There's little evidence to suggest Schneebaum was one of the great explorers of the 20th century, or even that he was particularly curious.
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