Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Maths teacher Ted Slauson became adept at recording and memorizing prices of products featured on the iconic game show The Price is Right, an obsession dating back to the show's inception in 1972. This passion and dedication for the show culminated in him helping a contestant place a perfect bid during a 2008 showcase, an innocent act that would create one of the biggest controversies in television industry history.
A niche but genuinely engaging documentary about an obsessive superfan whose encyclopedic Price Is Right knowledge sparked real controversy. The story has a naturally compelling arc — obsession, triumph, fallout — though it's a fairly slim subject stretched to feature length. Acting scores low as it's a documentary with non-professional interview subjects of varying screen presence. Cinematography is standard talking-head documentary fare with archival game show footage. Novelty earns a middling mark — the subject is genuinely quirky and specific, but the documentary filmmaking approach is conventional. The ending resolves the controversy adequately without a particularly memorable payoff.