Film

EDtv 1999

Directed by Ron Howard

  • Comedy
  • 123 min
  • PG-13

The story of a nobody everybody is watching.

Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.

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Character

Comic, cool, effortless and contemporary.

  • gravecomic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • effortlessdemanding
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • warmbleak

Who loves it, who doesn't

The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 2The Sincere: disliked by 12 / 1The FormalistThe Formalist: loved by 1The Formalist: disliked by 21 / 2The IronistThe Ironist: disliked by 20 / 2The ArchivistThe Archivist: loved by 11The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: disliked by 10 / 1The EmpathThe Empath: disliked by 10 / 1loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

19 profiled raters. Loved most by The Sinceres; disliked most by The Ironists.

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