I don't think this is a very good film; I saw it last year when I was in New York at a screening and when I read that someone actually thought it was worth ten stars I thought I had better say something. For a start I liked the idea but I would have preferred it if the film makers had tried a straight drama instead of a sham documentary together with the shaky camera; the idea is that a couple of young film makers devise their own reality show; in the show they find someone who is terminally ill and then have a competition (the reality show) to find the spouse a new one; in this case a new husband to replace someone called Sheldon who looks as if he truly is dying. As soon as they find the couple the two young film makers start their show. That is where it all goes wrong; because this was a low budget film the so called reality show in the movie looks like a really low budget reality show set in someone's back yard which nobody would watch; the host just isn't very good and some of the suitors for the hand of Sheldon's wife look embarrassed; maybe this was meant to be, I don't know but it certainly isn't good film making. Some of the performances are OK especially from some of the people behind desks that the film makers encounter throughout the movie and I thought the leading actress showed a lot of promise but the leading actor spent almost the entire film with an annoying false cigarette under the guise that he was quitting cigarettes; whomsoever came up with this idea needs their head looking at and the opening shot of this character in the tee shirt which read 'My grandparents went to Auswitch and I ended up with this lousy tee shirt' is just in bad taste no matter who is wearing it.
Review of Reeling in Reality
