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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary In his feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who poked through the muck as the water receded, and uncovers a courageous whistle-bl...

Directed By: Harry Shearer

Written By: Harry Shearer

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 38 m

The Big Uneasy

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary In his feature-length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there. Shearer speaks to the tireless investigators and experts who poked through the muck as the water receded, and uncovers a courageous whistle-bl...

Directed By: Harry Shearer

Written By: Harry Shearer

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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75
May 20, 2011
When disaster struck, the documentary says, the powerful corps went to extraordinary lengths to silence, discredit and punish whistleblowers, many of whose allegations were supported by congressional investigators.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
75
May 17, 2011
At once breezy and substantial, but it could have been more powerful if it were, paradoxically, sharper and blunter.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
70
May 17, 2011
Shearer builds an airtight case to prove his thesis, and one of his most chilling arguments is a roll call of brave souls whose lives and careers have been systematically wrecked in pursuit of the truth.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 9, 2011
Unfortunately, I was also convinced that trapped within this 98-minute film is a good 30-minute news report struggling to get out. Shearer, who is bright and funny, comes across here as a solemn lecturer.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
May 21, 2011
While Shearer admittedly makes an impassioned directorial debut, the film plays out like a data-heavy, extended investigative report with an academic emphasis on scientific findings over portraits of human suffering.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
40
May 17, 2011
Well-intended and informative, but also unfocused, unwieldy and a little smug, picture pales in comparison to the really first-rate films on the subject ("When the Levees Broke," "Trouble the Water").
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40
May 17, 2011
Whistle-blowing works best without gratuitous pop-doc debris, but there are only so many dry, fact-heavy testimonies from engineers you can take before a certain dullness uneasily settles in.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Release Date May 20, 2011
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Natural Disaster? You Don't Know The Half Of It.
Website http://www.thebiguneasy.com/index.html
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Awards

Washington DC Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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