About the Author
Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and cohost of the national TV program Ebert & Roeper, earned a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Readers in more than 200 newspapers across the United States and Canada rely upon his reviews. Roger was awarded an honorary degree in 2004 by the American Film Institute and the Online Film Critics Society named his Web site the best Internet movie review site. He also hosts the annual Overlooked Film Festival at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.