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A beautifully measured portrait of comedians Ralphie May and Lahna Turner and their struggles with career and family, while facing Ralphie's lifelong challenges with obesity and addiction. Intimately observed and skillfully paced. Bravo.

I notice a lot of reviewers here are arguing politics with others' reviews. It's too bad when personal interpretation overwhelms the deeper, conflicting themes of an artwork. By focusing on a dirty civil war through the eyes of a single man, one with an oft-villified expertise, we get a glimpse of how no one who picks up a gun of war will ever lay it down as an innocent.

Probing, honest, and although one may think one side or the other is hero or villain, an engaging examination of how war kills much more than merely men, women and children.

... on finding your way past the obstacles of others into a life of your own. A great example of why indie films are such a rich mine of ideas.