Review of Famous Nathan (2015) by Gary S — 08 Aug 2015

Really a great movie. To me goes beyond the realm of a documentary, personal, intimate human. It is the story of people, people who worked there for much of their lives, people who grew up in a family business. This would work beautifully if it was fiction, but it is not.

You watch the arc of a mans life as he starts out poor and marginalized in Poland, learns to work hard, comes to the US with nothing and begins to build a very personal business, with a doggedly intense work ethic, never forgetting to remain connected to his workers and his customers.

It is also a story of mortality and life itself as the characters in the film, interviewed over years grow old before your eyes, and the questions of what really matters in life and what a life comes to in the end are splayed out on the screen for all to see.

I found this feature very moving and would see it again in a heart beat.