Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010), co-directed by Joe Cross and Kurt Engfehr, is an Australian-American documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Joe Cross — forty years old, 310 pounds, on steroids for nearly a decade for a debilitating chronic skin disease — received a medical verdict that doubles as the film's title. His answer was to buy a juicer, hire a cameraman, and drive across America for sixty days on nothing but fresh-pressed fruit and vegetable juice.

What the film catches isn't a polished health story. Cross meets strangers along the way who see something of themselves in him, and the friction of actually changing direction at forty is visible throughout. Stream Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010) online on iFILM.