Summary
At the annual Vent Haven Convention in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, ventriloquism capital of the world, director Mark Goffman discovers five extraordinary characters straight out of a Christopher Guest mockumentary. But in this delightful, it's-all-true documentary, the characters are real, and so are the emotional attachments that they have with their "dummies."
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+11)
Critics 59Audiences 70GoodWatch 54
Tomatometer71%
Metascore47
Audience score78%
IMDb6.1
Running time
1 h 24 min
Shorter than most documentaries, −12 min on the typical 96
typical 9684Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 11 more
Released
2010
January 26, 2010
16 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Rated
- PGUnited States
Better for older viewers: it's rated PG in the United States, and the viewing guide lists it for adults.
Directing · 1
- Mark Goffman Director
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