Winnebago Man is a documentary about trying to track down Jack Rebney, the subject of this apparently very popular viral YouTube video that I'd never heard of:
These are out-takes from the filming of a Winnebago ad in 1989. They were passed around on VHS during the 1990s and then went wild on YouTube. The filmmakers tried tracking him down and found him living as a hermit in northern California. Then it turns a little more bizarre.
The story was interesting and the film had the right proportion of showing the video and briefly talking about viral videos and finding and then interviewing Jack. He had some things to say about the state of the country and how he hated Dick Cheney but I was a bit frustrated that the film didn't want to show that but wanted to show something else. Still there are some very good revelatory moments towards the end that really saved it for me.
Overall a fun documentary.
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