ANDRE IS AN IDIOT or is he?

ANDRE IS AN IDIOT

Directed by Tony Benna

Produced by André Ricciardi
Tory Tunnell
Stelio Kitrilakis
Joshua Altman
Ben Cotner

Runtime: 88 minutes    Language: English

Instagram: @andreisanidiotfilm

Website: https://andre.ajointventure.com/

How do you make Cancer look funny?  You view it through Andre Ricciardi's eyes.

This is Andre Ricciardi's story, beginning after he received a Cancer diagnosis and looking back to the choices he made that led him to this life-altering news.

Andre’s career was in advertising, so he built a life around looking at things from odd angles to sell products. This time, though, he’s turning that lens on himself.

Andre’s best friend, Lee, suggested they get partner colonoscopies—an idea Andre immediately dismissed as weird. Lee went ahead on his own and got the all‑clear. Cut to a year later: Andre finally books his colonoscopy, expecting it to be routine so he can get on with his life. But life has a way of redirecting everything. He receives a colon cancer diagnosis and realizes that if he had listened to his friend a year earlier, he might have caught it at a much earlier stage. That’s when it hits him: he’d been an idiot.

Andre is eccentric, darkly funny, and a little warped in the best way. He collects random objects, reads voraciously, and is constantly filled with creative ideas. When he’s faced with his diagnosis, he decides to document his own decline—with Lee joining him on every ridiculous, heartfelt, and chaotic adventure along the way.

Andre's hair is almost a character in this story as you witness it go from crazy to normal to wtf?

This is the best film I’ve seen about what it’s actually like to go through terminal cancer because it’s both painfully real and genuinely hilarious. Andre is brutally honest and somehow manages to hold onto hope, even in the hardest moments.

He’s an oddball paired with a wonderfully normal, deeply supportive wife and family. His wife originally married him as a joke to get citizenship, but she stayed—and together they built a life that’s as unconventional as it is loving.

Cancer is everywhere these days, and stories like this matter. This film shows that even in the midst of treatment, fear, and uncertainty, it’s still possible to live fully, love deeply, and keep your relationships strong.

Release Date: March 6th in Theatres