Hands on a Hard Body

Hands on a Hard Body (1997)

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116481/]

The Gist:

Hands on a Hard Body is a documentary that's pretty slipshod, low production value, but succeeds admirably by its fascinating subject matter. Here, it's a contest where a group of people put their hands on a truck and the last person to remove his hand/lean or squat/pass out etc wins the truck. This whole premise is, of course, laden with conflict and the reasons for wanting the truck vary from needing it for a job that someone will lose otherwise to someone who had won it the year before and is in it for the competition alone. The film chronicles the various strategies, the profile of specific personalities, the heartbreaking delirium and crushing defeat of nearly everyone trying to win the damn thing. It's definitely interesting.