Nobelity (2006)
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50% of critics liked it
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61% of users liked it
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Filmmaker Turk Pipkin sets out on a global journey to probe the minds of nine Nobel Laureates in this documentary that seeks to find answers to some of the most pressing issues currently facing mankind. Everyone wants the world to be a better place for our children and the future generations that… More Filmmaker Turk Pipkin sets out on a global journey to probe the minds of nine Nobel Laureates in this documentary that seeks to find answers to some of the most pressing issues currently facing mankind. Everyone wants the world to be a better place for our children and the future generations that will follow, but how do we work to improve a world where famine, warfare, and strife seem to be more widespread than ever before? Follow Pipkin to the far corners of the globe as he poses this question, and many others concerning the future of our troubled planet to such great minds as Rick Smalley, Steven Weinberg, Dr. Harold Varmus, Desmond Tutu, Sir Joseph Rotblat, Jody Williams, Amartya Sen, and Ahmed Zewail. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Rating, Runtime
- Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.
- Directed By
- Turk Pipkin
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
- In Theaters
- Mar 20, 2006 Wide
- On DVD
- Nov 21, 2006
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
No offense to Pipkin and his real concerns, but a tougher questioner might have shed more light and heat.
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Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
It's about 40 IQ points dumber than the typical public television broadcast.
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Joe Leydon, Variety
An amiably sincere and politely thought-provoking docu in which the peripatetic writer-director plays genial talk-show host to various Nobel Prize winners.
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Jette Kernion, Cinematical
It is difficult to sustain an audience's interest with talking heads, and a few of the Nobel Laureates have trouble explaining concepts in terms that are easy to digest during a documentary.
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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, TheMovieChicks.com
If you like to have your brain (and your heart) engaged when you watch films, this is a documentary you don't want to miss and you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see the value of it.
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