TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer


Even the sympathetic listening abilities of a Quaker reared at the knees of his grandparents might be overtaxed by TV Man: The Search for the Last Independent Dealer, an amiable documentary that mistakes merely malingering around old people for evocative, homespun nostalgia. An inoffensive but hardly fetching borderline vanity project that follows around director Steve Kosareff as he traces the lineage of mom-and-pop American television retailers while also trying to find someone to fix his beloved 1965 Zenith Jetlite, this film — aimed squarely at an over-60 rural/suburban demographic who could never be bothered to drive to a theater to see it, and wouldn’t know how to ever track it down online — delivers more yawns than laughs, intrigue or identification. For the full, original review, from ShockYa, click here. (TV Man Productions, unrated, 82 minutes)