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Sickboy

2017 · 61 min

A gentle, candid portrait that finds warmth and humour in facing a serious illness head-on.

Directed by
Andrew MacCormack
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Sickboy follows 29-year-old Jeremie Saunders as he lives openly with Cystic Fibrosis and devotes his life to removing the stigma attached to chronic illness and disease. He demonstrates that laughing about the absurdity of CF can take away its power. The film traces the efforts by Jeremie and his best friends, Brian and Taylor, to create an internet podcast that seeks to change the way people view serious illness like brain cancer, schizophrenia, and epilepsy.

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Directed by
Andrew MacCormack
Genres
Documentary
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • healing
  • friendship
  • identity
  • death
  • media
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Andrew MacCormack
Runtime
61 min
Country
Canada

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