Silver Hugo, Chicago International Television Awards
"Seemed thrilling precisely for spitting in the face of all that's hot." — The Village Voice
Curmudgeon, contrarian, misanthrope, naysayer, malcontent, dyspeptic, negative — the people profiled in I, Curmudgeon have at least one thing in common: at some point in their lives, somebody has reached for one of those words to describe them. So what did they do to earn the label?
Maybe it's because, as one of them sees it, nothing is ever quite as good as everyone else seems to think — and they know it. To these people, it feels like everywhere they turn, something is being celebrated, explicitly or otherwise, and they don't always understand what the fuss is about. Sometimes they can't help but question it.
Or maybe they're just a bunch of cranks and complainers. As the film's subjects readily admit, some of them have no reason, or desire, to change.
