CineVegas 2009

Once upon a time, a man named Jack climbed the beanstalk. The world has been talking about him ever since. But our Jack Rebney was not climbing the beanstalk — he was making a Winnebago sales video. Jack would freak out and scream when the videotaping wasn’t going well. — that meant he was screaming a lot. The crew decided to make a VHS compilation of Jack’s explosions and show it to others. They were annoyed but if you weren’t on the set it was hilarious to watch. In the following years, people traded VHS copies around the entire country. Endlessly quotable, Jack got underground famous. Then the internet came along — Jack got new fame as “Winnebago Man” and “The Angriest Man In The World.”

Enterprising filmmaker Ben Steinbauer found Jack, a modern day recluse living in the mountains, to get his impressions of his own microcelebrity. Does Jack know how many millions of times people have watched him flip out? Is Jack still that angry? Not only is it exciting to discover, but Jack’s present-day demeanor and what he takes the film crew through goes beyond expectation.