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- 2005
- R
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 50 m
- 2005
- R
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 50 m
Summary Reel Paradise tells the story of John Pierson's family at the end of a year-long adventure on a remote island in Fiji where they ran the 180 Meridian Cinema, showing free movies to the locals. (Wellspring Media)
Directed By: Steve James
- 2005
- R
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 50 m
- 2005
- R
- Wellspring Media
- 1 h 50 m
Reel Paradise
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5.3
Summary Reel Paradise tells the story of John Pierson's family at the end of a year-long adventure on a remote island in Fiji where they ran the 180 Meridian Cinema, showing free movies to the locals. (Wellspring Media)
Directed By: Steve James
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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68% Positive
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27% Mixed
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5% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
63
68% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
27% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Since Reel Paradise doesn't make the mistake of lionizing Pierson while it keeps up with him and his family, the results stay with you, like memories of an unexpected and surprising vacation.
The Piersons went, they showed movies, they returned. Taveuni is more or less the same. But by living and coping together for a year, the family is probably stronger and richer.
The film is absorbing enough as an intimate family portrait, complete with friction.
"Survivor" meets "Cinema Paradiso"in this wonderfully entertaining documentary about a film fanatic's quest to bring Hollywood movies to a remote South Sea island.
An amusingly damning portrait of a man trying to impose his will on a world that, really, has better things to do.
The result is a gorgeous, third-person version of an extended family-vacation movie that the Piersons, their friends and their former Fijian neighbors can enjoy for years to come.
Pierson is a high-powered egotist with appalling tastes and a great-white-father complex, and his whiny family is about as much fun as fingernails on a blackboard.
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Production Company
View Askew Productions
Release Date Aug 17, 2005
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
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