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  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m

Summary What the #$*! Do We Know is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda (Matlin), finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behi...

Directed By: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente

Written By: Matthew Hoffman, William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente

  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m
  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 49 m

What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
38
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary What the #$*! Do We Know is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda (Matlin), finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behi...

Directed By: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente

Written By: Matthew Hoffman, William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
38
23% Positive
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42% Mixed
11 Reviews
35% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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23% Positive
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42% Mixed
11 Reviews
35% Negative
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91
Tells a light-hearted fictional story and creates a maze of imaginative animation and special effects to illustrate how the heavier thoughts of the science apply to the everyday world.
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW
63
Not a conventional documentary about quantum physics. It's more like a collision in the editing room between talking heads, an impenetrable human parable and a hallucinogenic animated cartoon.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
50
It's fun, instructive, and stimulating, but never beautiful. Ultimately it's limited by its compulsion to knock our socks off at every turn and to compare itself with "Alice in Wonderland."
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
50
Pic's not-so-hidden agenda is to promote the fusion of science and New Age religion, making it a close cousin to ventures as Bernt and Fritjof Capra's "Mindwalk."
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
38
"Quantum Bull-Bleep" would be a more apt title for the conclusions that the movie draws, but one concept was a revelation to me. One of the scientists said it's a fact that a single object can be in two places at the same time. I guess that explains O.J.'s alibi.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
25
Emits a fishy odor, like a recruitment film for an obscure cult you'd rather stay away from.
By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW
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The film treats its audience like fidgety junior-high schoolers, piling on the sub-Koyaanisqatsi cityscapes and cheesy episodes with Marlee Matlin as a lonely photographer, plus bouncy cartoons of human cells who look as if they'd be happier chasing stains in bathroom-cleanser commercials.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Captured Light, Lord of the Wind
Release Date Jun 18, 2004
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline a quantum fable
Website http://www.whatthebleep.com/
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Awards

Ashland Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Washington DC Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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