What's Eating Ralphie May?

What's Eating Ralphie May?

90 mins | Jan. 1, 2019

Filmmaker Cat Rhinehart spends one year closely following comedian Ralphie May, leading up to his planned weight loss surgery. Initially intended to be a weight loss documentary, what is captured instead is a raw and intimate portrait of a family dealing with addiction, a wife coming to terms with her inability to change the person she loves, and a tragically flawed comedian breaking down during one of the last years of his life.

What's Eating Ralphie May?

90 mins | Jan. 1, 2019

What's Eating Ralphie May?
Filmmaker Cat Rhinehart spends one year closely following comedian Ralphie May, leading up to his planned weight loss surgery. Initially intended to be a weight loss documentary, what is captured instead is a raw and intimate portrait of a family dealing with addiction, a wife coming to terms with her inability to change the person she loves, and a tragically flawed comedian breaking down during one of the last years of his life.
Producers
Original title What's Eating Ralphie May?
Directors Cat Rhinehart
Writers Cat Rhinehart

Cast

Ralphie May

as Himself

Lahna Turner

as Herself