Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

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During his road-trip Cross meets Phil Staples, a morbidly obese truck driver from Sheldon, Iowa, in a truck stop in Arizona and inspires him to try juice fasting.[6][7]

A sequel to the first film, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead 2, was released in 2014.[8]

Awards

Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead won the Turning Point Award and shared the Audience Choice Award – Documentary Film at the 2010 Sonoma International Film Festival.[9]

Critical reception

The film has received mixed reviews with review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes giving it a rating of 67% "fresh" [10] and Metacritic having an average score of 45 out of 100, based on 5 reviews.[11] The Hollywood Reporter called it an "infomercial passing itself off a documentary "[12] The New York Times stated that the film is "no great shakes as a movie, but as an ad for Mr. Cross’s wellness program its now-healthy heart is in the right place".[13]

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