Documentary
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 6.7 | Nov , 2019
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IMDB 6 | Jun , 2017
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IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2008
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IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2003
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2020
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IMDB 9 | Jan , 2025
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IMDB 8 | May , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
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IMDB 8.5 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 7.7 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 2016
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2021
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IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2011
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IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2021
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