Winnebago Man (2009)

Directed by

Ben Steinbauer

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 96 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker tracks down Jack Rebney, the man famous for ranting in a viral Winnebago video from decades earlier. The documentary looks at how the clip spread and what happened to Rebney after it made him an internet legend.

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What happens

Winnebago Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Ben Steinbauer. The film follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from a salesperson named Jack Rebney. Originally intended as an inside joke, the video spread across the globe—first on VHS, and then via YouTube and other online video sites, earning the salesman the title of "The Angriest Man in the World". The documentary explores the story of the clips' origins and how, two decades later, they affected the reluctant star. Steinbauer released a short film entitled Extraordinarily Unusual: Surprising the Winnebago Man in 2017, documenting his return to visit Rebney on his 87th birthday, bringing some of Rebney's old friends to celebrate. Rebney died on May 10, 2023, at the age of 93. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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