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  • 2009
  • TV-PG
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2009
  • TV-PG
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, th...

Directed By: Doug Pray

Written By: Gregory Beauchamp, Kirk Souder, Timothy J. Sexton

  • 2009
  • TV-PG
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2009
  • TV-PG
  • Seventh Art Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m

Art & Copy

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
62
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
6.0
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Summary Art & Copy is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising's "creative revolution" of the 1960s, th...

Directed By: Doug Pray

Written By: Gregory Beauchamp, Kirk Souder, Timothy J. Sexton

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
62
70% Positive
7 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
10% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
62
70% Positive
7 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
10% Negative
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83
It's jaunty and bright, but Pray never gets under the skin of things or ever truly questions the essence of advertising as an art or trade.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
75
There so much entertaining information in Art & Copy, a documentary about modern advertising, that it takes a while to realize we are being sold something
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
75
An entertaining but also oddly naive documentary about American advertising.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Like a good ad, Art & Copy bounds along and never bores. That's a big credit to Pray's savvy compilation and of editor Phillip Owens' crisp cuts.
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67
The film is essentially a skillful advertising-industry infomercial that speaks its subject’s slick aesthetic language.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
50
A scattershot, repetitive documentary about the creative minds ­behind some of the most arresting ad campaigns of the past 40 years.
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20
By the end of Pray’s skin-deep love letter, only one sweeping reaction seems appropriate: “A pox on all your houses.”
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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6.0
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67% Mixed
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17% Negative
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17% Negative
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Production Company Art&Industry, Granite Pass, The One Club
Release Date Aug 21, 2009
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating TV-PG
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Tagline Creativity can solve anything
Website http://www.artandcopyfilm.com/
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Awards

News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Newport Beach Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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