Public Domain (2003)

A dark, wryly funny film about a game show run by smug pseudo-intellectuals that awards money to the contestant with the most pathetic life. The "contestants" are unaware they're even playing the game: the show's producers infiltrate houses, install surveillance cameras and broadcast footage for viewers to judge in such existential categories as doubt, alienation and disillusionment. A biting critique of the culture of surveillance as entertainment.

Released Jan. 1, 2003 77 min None+

Genres: Comedy

Keywords: imdb.fictional-talk-show, imdb.fictional-reality-show, imdb.fictional-game-show, imdb.fast-motion-scene, imdb.white-male-pretending-to-be-black, imdb.split-screen, imdb.school-uniform + 14 more, imdb.pixelated-face, imdb.marquee, imdb.intoxication, imdb.goth-kid, imdb.sex, imdb.voyeurism, imdb.verbal-abuse, imdb.time-lapse-photography, imdb.prostitute, imdb.juvenile-crime, imdb.hidden-camera, imdb.cocaine, imdb.agoraphobia, aspectratio.1-66-1