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No Impact Man: The Documentary
Directed by
Laura Gabbert
Not Rated
2009
1h 32m
Documentary
6.6
83%
63%
6.2
Watch Free
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
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Cast of No Impact Man: The Documentary
Colin Beavan
Himself
Michelle Conlin
Herself
Laura Gabbert
Director / Producer
Justin Schein
Executive Producer / Director Of Photography
Tobey List
Producer
Dasha Tolstikova
Producer
Eden Wurmfeld
Producer
Dan Cogan
Executive Producer
William Haugse
Editor
Matthew Martin
Editor
Bobby Johnston
Original Music Composer
No Impact Man: The Documentary Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
No Impact Man is certain to raise questions among viewers - questions about the Beavans, questions about ourselves, questions about degrees of sustainability. And asking questions is what it's all about, isn't it?
Entertainment Spectrum
Keith Cohen
This curiosity piece should stimulate interesting conversations about the lessons learned from the viewing experience.
Kansas City Star
Robert W. Butler
It's kinda inspiring. It's also very funny.
Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Fortunately for the sake of documentary, Beavan is no humorless eco-scold, and he makes it clear that he's engaged in a lifestyle experiment, not recommending this extreme course for everyone.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
No Impact Man is a very confused documentary that somehow puts its confusion to good use.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
This poignant, provocative documentary reduces the green movement to human scale -- and magnifies the size of mountain it's trying to climb.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A strange yet riveting portrait of a marriage enduring a year spent making as little environmental impact as possible.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Like reality TV, there are moments of drama that have an aura of awkward self-consciousness about them and incidents that feel, if not staged, at the very least orchestrated, amped up. But you have to hand it to Beavan and Conlin.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
It may not be the greatest of cinematic exercises, and it often feels contrived, but this documentary somehow is enlightening, ridiculous, foreboding and funny at the same time.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It all seems like a stunt, especially since Beaven has also written a just-published book about his experiences, but he and Conlin are an engaging pair who don't let zealotry get in the way of humor.
Slate
Dana Stevens
You may find Colin Beavan unbearably smug, but at the heart of his mission lies an inconvenient truth: Our consumable, disposable, unsustainable culture is destroying the planet, and there's no way to change that without making sacrifices.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Unsparingly exposes the confused power dynamics of a certain kind of modern middle-class marriage.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Finally an environmental advocacy film for those of us who have the best of intentions but a weakness for Peet's espressos, takeout dinners and an occasional Marc Jacobs sale, to say nothing of a dependence on toilet paper...
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The film, like Beavan himself, leaves an unholy mess of contradictions in its wake, but most productively, a great deal of those contradictions are our own.
Observer
Sara Vilkomerson
The family has its struggles, certainly, but even more than a statement about the environment, No Impact Man offers a thoughtful narrative on the compromises of marriage and how this particular couple found a way to meet in the middle.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
How much can we possibly glean from a guy whose idealism can be measured with a calendar?
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
An enviro-doc that doesn't soft-pedal the fact that the calculated, consciousness-raising media event it chronicles is a conceptual stunt, No Impact Man manages to present its New York do-gooder couple as both likably idealistic and inevitably conf
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
No Impact Man -- the film and the book -- could well end up instruction manuals.
DVDTalk.com
Jason Bailey
The content and ideas could easily veer into the territory of the overbearing, but the naturalistic filmmaking and engaging personalities of the parties involved keep the documentary light and nimble while remaining contemplative and informative.
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