Fyre
2019 · Movie · 98 min · ★ 6.9 · 77% critics
Promising a glamorous music festival with high-end island luxury, the organizers instead deliver tents and basic food. This documentary tracks how a persuasive pitch, questionable execution, and mounting confusion spiraled into a public disaster for customers, vendors, and employees.
Also known as Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
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Streaming on Netflix.
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Details
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-01-18
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (1,007 votes)
About
You’ll like this if you enjoy fast, alarming true-story exposés about hype going wrong and social-media-fueled trust; Not for you if you want a deep, critical breakdown of the human cost, like Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond or Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.
Pros: incredibly compelling; jaw-dropping wtf moments; entertaining and informative | Cons: commentary feels surface-level; human cost underexamined; frustratingly familiar
Themes
- fraud
- based on true story
- music festival
- lawsuit
- disaster
- fake trailer
- observational documentary
- fyre
- fake advertisement
Cast & crew
- BM
Billy McFarland
as Self - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage)
Ja Rule
as Self - Fyre Co-Founder (archive footage)
- JB
Jason Bell
as Self - Former NFL Player (archive footage)
- GB
Gabrielle Bluestone
as Self - Journalist, Vice News
- SD
Shiyuan Deng
as Self - Product Designer
- MC
Michael Ciccarelli
as Self - Software Engineer
- ML
Mdavid Low
as Self - Fyre Creative Director
- SK
Samuel Krost
as Self - Fyre Media
- AK
Andy King
as Self - Event Producer
- J.
J.R.
as Self - Former Fyre Employee
Directed by Chris Smith