Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Errol Morris
George Mendonca
Ray Mendez
Rodney Brooks
Dave Hoover
Ted Basaloukos
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Errol Morris's meditation on the myth of Sisyphus profiles four esoteric professionals -- a topiary gardener (George Mendonca), a lion tamer (Dave Hoover), a robot scientist (Rodney Brooks) and a mole-rat photographer (Ray Mendez). Though each is in a separate world, Morris asks us to contemplate what makes them four-of-a-kind, as his film explores the metaphysical meeting point between the animal, the mechanical and the human.
Director
Errol Morris
Crew
Ted Basaloukos
Steve Benes
Fred Burnham
Scott Doonan
Eric Korsh
Steven Lamola
Lindsay Law
Mark Lipson
Thomas Mcauley Burke
Shondra Merrill
Shondra Merrill
Errol Morris
Robert Richardson
Caleb Sampson
Karen Schmeer
Julia Sheehan
Peter Sova
Kathy Trustman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 1997 award for Best Documentary from the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Winner of the 1997 award for Best Documentary from the National Board of Review.
Winner of the 1997 award for Best Non-Fiction Film from the New York Film Critics Circle.
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States Fall October 3, 1997
Released in United States January 1997
Released in United States November 1997
Released in United States October 1997
Released in United States on Video June 23, 1998
Shown at Denver International Film Festival October 23-30, 1997.
Shown at International Festival of Young Cinema (Americana) in Turin, Italy November 14-22, 1997.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.
Shown at Telluride Film Festival August 29 - September 1, 1997.
Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American distribution rights at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival for a reported sum of six-figures.
Began shooting June 1, 1992.
Completed shooting late September 1992.
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 26 - October 12, 1997.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival August 29 - September 1, 1997.)
Released in United States January 1997 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah January 16-26, 1997.)
Released in United States on Video June 23, 1998
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown at International Festival of Young Cinema (Americana) in Turin, Italy November 14-22, 1997.)
Released in United States Fall October 3, 1997
Released in United States October 1997 (Shown at Denver International Film Festival October 23-30, 1997.)
