Movie Review: Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man, starring Jack Rebney (with trailer and viral videos)

[Editor's note: For more on this week's indie releases, check out my piece called "Indie in summer," and for reviews of all the summer's biggest releases check out the Daily Loaf Movie Review Index.]

The Beach Theatre wades into geek culture to bring us the hilarious documentary Winnebago Man. The strange tale of Jack Rebney, now known as "the angriest RV salesman in the world," Winnebago Man delves deep into our fascination with viral video.

Rebney's fame stems from a series of outtakes from an industrial film he worked on for Winnebago Industries in 1989. The film was originally traded on VHS cassette all through the '90s until finally ending up on YouTube last decade. In the clips, Rebney is seen cursing up a storm, gesticulating wildly and coining a small mountain of geek catchphrases ("Can I get a kindness?" "I don't want anymore bullshit from anyone, and that includes me!"). After becoming obsessed with the videos, filmmaker Ben Steinbauer decided to track Rebney down, only to find that the guy basically fell off the planet after 1989.

This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.