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Finders Keepers

  • 2015
  • R
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
2.9K
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Finders Keepers (2015)
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A story about fame, addiction and a custody battle over a man's leg.A story about fame, addiction and a custody battle over a man's leg.A story about fame, addiction and a custody battle over a man's leg.

  • Directors
    • Bryan Carberry
    • Clay Tweel
  • Stars
    • John Wood
    • Shannon Whisnant
    • Mark Hamilton
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    2.9K
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    • Directors
      • Bryan Carberry
      • Clay Tweel
    • Stars
      • John Wood
      • Shannon Whisnant
      • Mark Hamilton
    • 18User reviews
    • 34Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Finders Keepers: Finding The Leg
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    John Wood
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    • Self
    Shannon Whisnant
    Shannon Whisnant
    • Self - Foot Finder
    Mark Hamilton
    Mark Hamilton
    • Self - Airplane Mechanic…
    Lisa Whisnant
    Lisa Whisnant
    • Self - Shannon Whisnant's Wife
    • Directors
      • Bryan Carberry
      • Clay Tweel
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    7gavin6942

    Interesting Case Study

    Shannon Whisnant purchased a grill at an auction. Inside the grill was an amputated leg. What follows is a story centered on the enterprising Whisnant and John Wood, the man whose leg wound up in the grill due to an odd chain of events.

    This story, by itself, is quite interesting because of the events and people involved. Shannon Whisnant is clearly crazy, with delusions of grandeur. He does not seem stupid, but clearly feels he has been slighted by the world and should be someone important. John Wood, on the other hand, is generally portrayed as the victim, but he has his own problems and from what we see in the film, he seems to have more or less thrown away a golden ticket.

    A little bit deeper, there are two issues I would love to have seen more of: one, why did the doctors let Wood keep his leg? I feel like there are some biohazard issues with letting people keep rotting flesh, and the film never really got into that.

    And two, I wish the issue would have gone through actual legal channels. There are some excellent legal questions involved: does the leg belong to the person who found it, just as money in a mattress would? Or is it clearly something different because it is human remains -- can you actually own part of another man? This could have been fascinating to see argued in court, but that never happens.
    7caspian1978

    More than just a Foot

    On the surface, Finders Keepers is an odd and funny look into the lives of two interesting characters from North Carolina who fight over the ownership of a severed foot /leg. Although entertaining, this documentary is much more than just an out of the ordinary situation. The deeper we get into the background of the story and its characters, we witness a struggle for fame, forgiveness and family. Issues of drug addiction and childhood trauma appear as we see a deeper story that deals with regrets and poor decisions that have created a major journey that both characters travel through. An uplifting ending helps bring closure where it is much needed. Still, the odd scenario which Finders Keepers showcase, may not find a larger audience that this documentary deserves.
    breadandhammers

    sIlly but great

    It's not the idea, but the execution. While the subject matter is silly and ridiculous, Carberry and Tweel are able to extract and distill such a human story. The dichotomy makes it that much more enjoyable.
    7woobooridesagain

    The Story Behind A Media Circus

    We often see on internet news websites little bits and snips of "weird news", things that seem too bizarre, too inexplicable to be real. The story of John Wood and Shannon Whisnant is one of these stories. Through this documentary, we get a rare glimpse into the lives of the people behind the strange and altogether unlikely series of events that brought two very different men from Carolina together in a battle over, of all things, an amputated leg.

    John Wood lost his leg in a fatal plane crash that saw the father he loved, Tom, die. Already a troubled man, the trauma of the crash sent him over the edge, with drug abuse and alienation from his family causing him to enter into a downward spiral. Eventually, everything he owned ended up in a storage unit. Desperate for something to have to reconcile with the event, he took claim of his own amputated limb, and eventually preserved it through a bit of backwoods mummification. It was among the possessions in the shed that was eventually sold to a wheeling-dealing haggler named Shannon Whisnant. Discovering the foot in an old grill, Shannon claimed ownership of the foot after it was discovered to be a medically amputated limb. John wanted it back. The ensuing media attention to the story would change the lives of both men, though to the public at large, it was just another story of Southern-fried strangeness and backwoods idiocy.

    Starting with the story of the leg itself, the strange set of circumstances which saw it amputated from its owner and its backwoods method of mummification, the documentary then transitions into the story of the battle over the severed leg, before examining the lives of two men who are, at their core, damaged in more ways than just physical scars and amputated appendages. John, a recovering addict who desperately sought the approval and love of his parents. Shannon, physically abused by his father, like many people in the age of reality television and internet broadcasting desperately seeks fame and recognition.

    Although it is an easy trap for many to focus solely on the lurid details of the leg and the battle for it that ensued shortly thereafter, the documentary succeeds in telling a story that you aren't likely to see on reality TV or the internet, examining the lives of both men in an ultimately sympathetic way. About the only fault that can be said for the film is that, while the story is interesting, the documentary becomes thoroughly average. Neither terrible nor exemplary, it succeeds at telling its story from a new and refreshing angle, but the tale it tells is simply not one that is overwhelmingly engrossing. It's competent, and it does an excellent job of taking a look at its subjects in a way that no one prior had even bothered to attempt. But there is only so much story you can get out of the struggle over a severed foot. That and perhaps it is a little too lenient in its examination of the exploitation of these two men by a news and entertainment media that was clearly interested only in the bloody details.
    7jonyen

    One foot in the grave

    There seems to be a lot of documentaries made these days, and even some movies look like doccos. The premise of Finders Keepers is odd, but the tagline/blurb of this film tells little about what it is: a weird human interest/recovery story from NC/SC. Unlike a lot of documentaries based around simple folk, the makers really draw you into responding emotionally to the characters in this one, whether it be annoyance, revulsion or admiration.

    Finders Keepers has the right mix of humour, TV/news footage and one on one face camera/narrative dialogue to tell an engaging story of the media, greed, missed opportunities and redemption. The documentary makers keep the necessary distance from the subjects to allow the story to unfold naturally.

    It is worth watching and talking about afterwards, especially if you are interested in embalmed feet.

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    • Trivia
      The articles that appear in the film poster are written by Charlotte Observer staff writer Marcie Young Cancio who first broke the story and gave the filmmakers permission to feature her articles.
    • Quotes

      Shannon Whisnant: I'm pretty smart. I'm sure y'all figured that out by now. I've heard from many a folk, kin to me, and close to me, and the ones that know me. They tell me that I have the best business mind that they've ever seen.

    • Connections
      Features 28 jours en sursis (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      Carmen Suite #2, Habanera - Theme 2
      Performed by Bruton Music

      Written by Georges Bizet

      Courtesy of APM Music

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    • Release date
      • September 25, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • En fot i grillen
    • Production company
      • Firefly Theater & Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $35,555
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,740
      • Sep 27, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $35,555
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 22m(82 min)
    • Color
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