Editing Harry Shearer (section)

===''The Big Uneasy''===

Shearer is the director of ''The Big Uneasy'' (2010), a documentary film about the impacts of [[Hurricane Katrina]] on [[New Orleans]].  Narrated by actor [[John Goodman]], the film describes [[levee]] [[failures]] and [[Disaster|catastrophic]] flooding in the [[New Orleans]] [[metropolitan area]], and includes extended interviews with former [[LSU]] professor [[Ivor Van Heerden]], Robert Bea, an engineering professor at the [[University of California at Berkeley]], and Maria Garzino, an engineer and contract specialist for the Los Angeles district of the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].  The film is critical of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its management of [[flood protection]] [[projects]] in Southern [[Louisiana]].<ref name="thebiguneasy.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiguneasy.com/THE%20BIG%20UNEASY%20-%20Production%20Notes%202011.pdf/ |title=The Big Uneasy; A Film by Harry Shearer |publisher=The Notions Dept Inc. |year=2010 |access-date=February 21, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511032953/http://www.thebiguneasy.com/THE%20BIG%20UNEASY%20-%20Production%20Notes%202011.pdf |archive-date=May 11, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Big Uneasy–In New Doc, Harry Shearer Makes the Case that Katrina Was an Unnatural Disaster |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/30/the_big_uneasy_in_new_doc |author=Kamat, Anjali |publisher=Democracy Now! |date=August 30, 2010 |access-date=February 21, 2014 |archive-date=February 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221180112/http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/30/the_big_uneasy_in_new_doc |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Harry Shearer's Amazing New Orleans Documentary |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/08/26/harry-shearers-new-orleans-documentary-the-big-uneasy.html |author=Grove, Lloyd |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=August 26, 2010 |access-date=February 21, 2014 |archive-date=February 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224001400/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/08/26/harry-shearers-new-orleans-documentary-the-big-uneasy.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Funnyman Harry Shearer gets serious with Katrina documentary 'The Big Uneasy' |last=Scott |first=Mike |work=The [[Times-Picayune]] |url=http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/08/funnyman_harry_shearer_gets_se.html |date=August 30, 2010 |access-date=June 29, 2015 |archive-date=October 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015234203/http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2010/08/funnyman_harry_shearer_gets_se.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="The Big Uneasy">{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_big_uneasy_2010/ |title=The Big Uneasy |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=June 29, 2015 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201143948/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_big_uneasy_2010/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Shearer draws on numerous technical experts to maintain that Hurricane Katrina's "... tragic floods creating widespread damage were caused by manmade errors in engineering and judgment."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiguneasy.com/about.html/ |title=About ''The Big Uneasy'' |year=2010 |publisher=The Notions Dept Inc. |access-date=June 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531005154/http://www.thebiguneasy.com/about.html |archive-date=May 31, 2015 }}</ref> On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6.85/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "''The Big Uneasy'' offers an admittedly uneven – yet still worthy and well-intentioned – look at a horrific disaster's aftermath."<ref name="The Big Uneasy"/>