FAT: A Documentary

FAT: A Documentary

The last documentary about fat you'll ever need to see.

Directed by Peter Curtis Pardini

Produced by Fat Squirrel Films, Gravitas Ventures

201995 min6.6 / 10

A polemical health documentary that challenges conventional nutritional wisdom through investigative argument and expert testimony.

Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all our good intentions, we go on getting fatter and fatter.

Questions people ask

  • Is FAT: A Documentary violent? No. Less violent than 92% of films.

  • Is FAT: A Documentary scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Does FAT: A Documentary end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 62% of films.

  • Is FAT: A Documentary sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is FAT: A Documentary easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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70/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity90

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise73

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love50

How much audiences actually like it

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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