A unique study of ethics in filmmaking that is full of heart and quirky characters. A genre bending experience. If you're tired of predictable stories then watch this!
The Ringmaster
2019
Action / Documentary
The Ringmaster
2019
Action / Documentary
95% - Critics
99% - Audience
8.0Plot summary
Upon his grandfather's death, a recovering gambling addict uses his inheritance to make a documentary about well-known onion rings from his childhood and the beloved Minnesotan chef who makes them. The project changes drastically when the filmmaker becomes hellbent on improving the humble fry cook's life, despite discovering his subject wants nothing to do with the film. The movie becomes something else entirely when the crew members secretly turn the cameras on the filmmaker, documenting his efforts and failures over a three year journey.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Gene Simmons as Self
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 810.94 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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A Miraculous Doc
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Eddie Trunk approved
This documentary was suggested by Eddie Trunk. It's on Amazon prime. Very good and bizarre documentary about a guy who makes onion rings. So some guy decides to do a documentary on him. This turns into a documentary about the guy obsessed with making the documentary. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are in this and taste test his onion rings. Then they onion ring maker has a mental breakdown!
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Buying cameras and having an idea doesn't make you a filmmaker.
Watch this to see a spoiled boy wearing adult clothes thinks if he buys cameras, throws money at a crew, and sports a backward-wearing Kangol cap he's a filmmaker. He's not.
This is not a documentary of Larry Lang. This is an ego-driven, people destroying, tramp through a person's life for the non-talented Zachs' own aggrandizement. There's not a boot big enough to kick that faux filmmaker's ass back to his manipulative home in his self-important dreamland. The crew of his excuse-making sycophants are equally deserving of shame.
By the end of this disaster you realize the only decent person in the whole documentary is Larry. All the rest are dingleberries on the buttholes of life.