Once is Enough
May 08, 2020 | IMDB 5.5
74 min Watch NowDocumentary
After losing his mother to obesity, a thirty-two year old chubby ginger comedian and vegan son-of-a-pig-farmer sets out to avoid the same fate by running one hundred miles through the mountains of Colorado in one of the world's most difficult ultra trail marathons...and lives to tell jokes about it.
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1965
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2024
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IMDB 7.9 | Mar , 2021
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2014
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IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2005
Carlin returns to the stage in his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. His spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behavior include Americans’ obsession with their two favorite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 2017
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IMDB 10 | Nov , 2018
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IMDB 8 | Aug , 2017
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2020
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IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 1997
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IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 1997
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IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2011
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IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 2016
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IMDB 8 | Nov , 2013
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IMDB 4.7 | Jan , 2009
Obesity has become one of the most overwhelming diseases in our modern society, even now considered to be of epidemic proportions. This documentary film dives into this sensitive, but socially powerful topic and exposes shocking statistics of the fattening of our culture. Kenny Saylors, overweight himself, faces his own fat in his life as he embarks upon a 55 day, Doctor supervised, water fast to see the effects of this ancient practice on our bodies today and to examine if healing properties truly do exist within our own bodies in this extreme method of food restriction.Comedian
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2017
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