Nathan for You: Finding Frances

Showings

Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema Fri, Jan 10, 2020 7:00 PM
Film Info
Runtime:84 min
Copyright:2017
Country Listing:USA
Cast/Crew Info
Director(s):Nathan Fielder

Description

**Sold out. Due to the nature of the event, rush tickets are not available.**

Featuring a live Q&A with Nathan Fielder!

Unlike anything you’ve ever seen on television, the landmark Comedy Central docu-reality series Nathan for You earned Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder cult status with its brilliant concoction of absurd and dubious business advice schemes. Over the years, the outlandishly deadpan Fielder has helped a moving company to sell its labour as a new exercise fad, a realtor to rebrand herself as a broker of ghost-free homes, and a coffee shop to open under the name Dumb Starbucks. In the show’s sublime feature-length finale, Finding Frances—screening to Hot Docs audiences in its full theatrical cut—Nathan attempts to help a Bill Gates impersonator reunite with his long-lost love, pushing his bizarre, constructed reality to startling—and hilarious—new heights.

Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Screening: 7:00 PM, followed by Q&A

No recording allowed.

Additional Information

"My new favorite love story... It is some of the most interesting 'reality'-based work yet made."
– Errol Morris, The New Yorker

“A flawless documentary on the black heart of the American dream.”
– Dale Eisinger, Spin

"Television has never seen anything quite like Fielder... I can say ['Finding Frances' is] the most hilarious, shocking and oddly endearing things he's ever done."
– Andy Greene, Rolling Stone