
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenCast aside any preconceived expectations you might have regarding this documentary and remember simply this: Winnebago Man is one of the best films you're going to see all year. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyUltimately, a heart in the film to go with Rebney's considerable bile. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAn intriguing look at the effects on one man's life; whether they're worth the cost is something Steinbauer leaves up to us. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThis engrossing documentary widens to consider the phenomenon of viral videos and the humiliation they can bring to their sometimes unsuspecting victims. |
| VarietyEddie CockrellA curious young helmer tracks down the profanity-spewing subject of a two-decade-old viral video with results at once scabrously funny and uncomfortably poignant. |
| NPRIan BuckwalterThe director wants him to engage his "audience," but Rebney -- as misanthropic as one would expect of a man who lives alone in a remote rural cabin -- only wants to talk about politics. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerWhat this film is really about is how interconnected we all are, like it or not, on the Internet, and how alluring and alarming this can be. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAlthough we find out a lot about this virtual hermit and develop an admiration for his cantankerous principles, the movie leaves some questions unanswered. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasSteinbauer's eagerness to draw information--and, let's face it, exclusive new clips--out of his recalcitrant subject borders on exploitation at times, but the smart, cagey Rebney has an agenda of his own that Steinbauer can't entirely control or define. The documentary gives him a forum to be his funny, irreducible self, which is a luxury the accidentally famous are rarely afforded. |
| New York PostLou LumenickA highly entertaining first-person documentary . |