I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what's wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents Tom Shadyac's first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood's leading comedy practitioners, with such successful titles as Ace Ventura and Liar Liar to his credit. I AM recounts what happened to the filmmaker after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged a changed man. Armed with nothing but his innate curiosity and a camera crew, Shadyac embarks upon a journey to discover how he as an individual, and we as a race, can improve the way we live. Shadyac meets with a variety of thinkers and doers - remarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, and faith - including such luminaries as Noam Chomsky, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Marc Ian Barasch to name a few. I AM asks many questions but offers no easy answers, Shadyac takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways.