Sarah Palin -- You Betcha!

A Freestyle Delivering (in U.S.) discharge of a Funnel 4 presentation in colaboration with Awakening Films of the Marc Hoeferlin production. (Worldwide sales: Content Media Corp. Intl., Santa Monica.) Created by Hoeferlin. Executive producer, Shani Hinton. Directed by Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill.With: Nick Broomfield, John Bitney, Colleen Cottle, Wally Moneghan, Mike Wooten, Chuck Heath, Sally Heath, Lyda Eco-friendly, Howard Bess, Laura Chase, Sarah Palin.A sarcastically well developed, smartly timed character murder, comic documaker Nick Broomfield's "Sarah Palin -- You Betcha!" spades enough grime about the Tea Party leader and self-referred to hockey mother to fulfill her haters, but lacks sufficient humor and insight to really make it essential-see for anybody outdoors the Brit muckraker's group of followers. Facts remain totally on the amount of an questioned Alaskan blogger's pseudo-scoop that the allegedly depressed Palin soothed the discomfort of losing the 2008 vice presidential race by watching wedding shows in mattress while scarfing lower fast-food tacos. The Freestyle Delivering pickup will not outgross its politically counterpart, "The Undefeated." Failing, possibly purposely, to land a job interview using the press-shy Palin herself, Broomfield (who co-directed the pic with longtime collaborator Joan Churchill) makes do having a bevy of quirkily incensed folks in the subject's home town of Wasilla, delivering another implicit critique of approved celebrity docus that surrender their newspaper cred upon acquiring the celeb's participation. This is actually the filmmaker's key subject, best investigated twelve-odd years back within the appropriately grubby "Kurt and Courtney." But "You Betcha!" indicates the topic is putting on thin, together with Broomfield's trademark haughty narration and "Who, me?" on-camera attitude. Improbably fitted inside a plaid flannel jacket and wacky winter hat, Broomfield braves Wasilla's snow and ice looking for the actual story from the "most popular governor from the very coldest condition," or at best a couple of cheap jokes. Whenever a local tour guide discloses Palin's childhood house is now a thrift store, the kind of that the former beauty full still visits occasionally, Broomfield quips, "I figured she looked at Barney's." Essentially shooting seafood inside a barrel, Broomfield starts by finding Palin's father, Chuck Heath, an old science teacher and current lover of deer antlers. Heath cordially grants or loans a ho-hum interview with the cooking of his house but soon turns cold, inspiring the investigative journalist to purchase some antlers from Heath hoping of thawing the ice. Subsequent speaking heads flesh the docu's rash sketch of Palin like a sociopathic, dim-witted and callous careerist who, Broomfield argues, frequently is based on public and try to activates individuals nearest to her. A Wasilla pastor labels the home town girl an "apocalyptic" Christian who wouldn't hesitate to produce a nuclear fight against evil. An opportunistic agent repping Palin's put-upon ex-boy-in-law promises tasty dish on "drugs and stuff," but balks at Broomfield's offer of 500 clams. Most indicting of, possibly, is really a childhood friend's myth-cracking observation that Palin, nicknamed "Barracuda" on her basketball-shooting prowess, really was much more of a dribbler. Clearly, the occasionally amusing pic is supposed to intervene in Palin's presumed presidential bid, leaning on charges of anti-intellectualism and homophobia that may be learned from the general read of Palin's own best-selling tell-all, "Going Rogue." Bumrushed by Broomfield at a set of book signings, Palin solutions the documentarian's interview request having a chirpy "I betcha I possibly could do this!Inch However the sitdown never involves pass, permitting Broomfield to feign outrage and justify an element-length type of retaliation that provides him more that is similar to his allegedly vengeful subject than he might choose to admit. Besides its bevy of pixilated YouTube clips and decades-old local news reviews acquired from VHS, all evincing Palin's lack of knowledge on some level or any other, "You Betcha!" includes Kilifax's snotty tune "Sarah Palin" and finishes using the legendary audio clip from the pol getting phone-pranked with a guy absurdly impersonating Nicolas Sarkozy. A smallscreen thriller-style musical score pumps in the amount of Broomfield's ridicule to mildly enjoyable effect. Other tech credits are unremarkable but sufficient.Camera (color, DV), Churchill editor, Michael X. Flores music, Jamie Muhoberac seem, Broomfield supervisory seem editor, Joe Milner re-recording mixer, Milner connect producer, Sarah Reid. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Real to Reel), Sept. 9, 2011. Running time: 92 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com