Movie Trailer for Tom Shadyac's I AM

I love films that are uplifting and inspiring, and Tom Shadyac's new documentary I Am gives us exactly that. 

For those of you who aren't familiar with Shadyac, he is the director of several silly comedies such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar, Liar, and Bruce Almighty. The director ended up getting into a terrible bike accident that changed his whole view of the world. He sold his mansion and gave away all of his possessions. He ended up moving into a trailer and started thinking about the world and how it could be changed into a better place. For those of you that want to learn more about Shadyac's experience, here's a great article from the LA Times that gives a detailed description.

Here is the films description:

I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac’s first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” and “Bruce Almighty” to his credit.  I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged a changed man. Disillusioned with life on the A-list, he sold his house, moved to a mobile home community, and decided to start life anew.

Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a camera crew, Shadyac embarks upon a journey to discover how he as an individual, and we as a race, can improve the way we live. Appearing on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig, Shadyac meets with a variety of thinkers and doers–remarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, and faith–including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks, and Marc Ian Barasch.  An irrepressible Everyman who asks many questions but offers no easy answers, he takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways.

The doc will be released in February of next year. Check out the trailer and share your thought with us.