Craigslist Joe (2012)

Craigslist Joe is a 2012 adventure-documentary film by Joseph Garner. It is humbly charming and will likely benefit from the barnstorming tour Garner is currently staging, holding one-night screenings across the country to coincide with the pic's Los Angeles run.

Garner, for reasons unexplained here, decided in the wake of 2008's financial crisis to simulate life without a safety net. Becoming voluntarily penniless for a month, he left home with only a laptop and cell phone, determined to survive on whatever kindness-of-strangers he could locate via the Craigslist classifieds. He wound up making a circuit of the country -- from L.A. to  New York and back, with stops including Chicago, Tallahassee and New Orleans -- with the help of many good Samaritans.

Synopsis: It was in this climate that 29-year-old Joseph Garner cut himself off from everyone he knew and everything he owned, to embark on a bold adventure. Armed with only a laptop, cell phone, toothbrush, and the clothes on his back – alongside the hope that community was not gone but just had shifted – Joseph began his journey. For 31 December days and nights, everything in his life would come from the Craigslist website. From transportation to food, from shelter to companionship, Joe would depend on the generosity of people who had never seen him and whose sole connection to him was a giant virtual swap meet.