Synopsis
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
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Cast
- Billy McFarlandSelf - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage)
- Ja RuleSelf - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage)
- Jason BellSelf - Former NFL Player (archive footage)
- Gabrielle BluestoneSelf - Journalist, Vice News
- Shiyuan DengSelf - Product Designer
- Michael CiccarelliSelf - Software Engineer
- Mdavid LowSelf - Fyre Creative Director
- Samuel KrostSelf - Fyre Media
- Andy KingSelf - Event Producer
- J.R.Self - Former Fyre Employee
Recommendations
- 91
Consequence
It’s a gripping, fascinating watch, an elegantly assembled portrait of the end result of influencer culture and late-stage capitalism – the blind leading the blind into an empty, insubstantial image of success and luxury that turns out to be nothing but smoke. - 88
Slant Magazine
Chris Smith’s documentary about the 2017 Fyre Festival implosion resists the urge to revel in cheap social media schadenfreude. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
It's a defining true crime story for the Internet age. - 88
RogerEbert.com
Much stranger than fiction, and yet it tells a story that makes perfect sense in the age of influencers and the general need to be seen. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is more than a bonfire of the inanities; it’s a shrewd indictment of a dream gone spectacularly, criminally wrong. - 82
IGN
Fyre delivers greatly on the delight in the misfortune of the wealthy and the shallow that we all expect and crave, but it also smartly doesn't hang its hat on it. It's mostly about the actual well-intentioned people involved in this fiasco and how anyone can be suckered into a vision or dream when no one in a collective is willing to speak out as a lone voice of reason. - 80
The Guardian
Fyre allows you to marvel, and to feel – how spectacular the hubris, how gross the unfairness – while reminding that whether you bought a ticket or not, you were the audience the whole time. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Fyre director Chris Smith (American Movie and The Yes Men) has experience crafting stories about guys with big dreams and the capacity to pull off long cons, and he has a great instinct for finding the most damning anecdotes.
