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Fixing America masterfully melds beautiful cinematography, a haunting yet catchy score, a substantive and timely message, myriad nuggets of interesting facts, and a common touch into an absorbing and important film.Writer and producer Steve Laffey's background as a Harvard MBA, top-level business executive, two-term politican, author, and TV personality makes him ideally suited to develop a film in this genre and of this caliber. Laffey has a deft interviewing touch and is able to quickly bond with interviewees - who are the real stars of the movie.Each interviewee is riveting in his/her own way. The film intersperses blue collar workers, students, professionals, TV and radio personalities, politicians, and academics with nice graphics and historical film clips. Laffey himself is featured at times in a low-key, humorous, and interesting manner - yet this isn't some type of Michael Moore-type production where the ego of the filmmaker dwarfs everything else.I just loved the insertion and positioning of portions of Jimmy Carter's malaise speech. It was not only hilariously done but also served to amplify a point about energy dependence reiterated throughout the film.Other points well made in the film include but are not limited to: Our country has all the fuel it needs in natural gas which, if fully utilized, would eliminate our need for foreign sources; the true cost of fuel today is over $15/gallon if the costs of defending the middle east are included; China will do most anything to keep its largely male and potentially restive population employed; if entitlements are properly included, our debt situation is far worse than Greece's right now; neither political party has a real debt reduction plan - it is just a question of which plan increases the debt less rapidly. The so-called "reductions" are just a rhetorical sleight-of-hand.Throughout the movie, the interviewees offer common sense solutions to our nation's problems. The piece-de-resistance, however, comes in a hilarious and hard-hitting bonus feature showing Laffey and John Dodenhoff fixing the deficit in ten minutes.I highly recommend this inaugural effort by Mr. Laffey. I hope to see many more features from this talented and passionate new filmmaker. I also implore viewers to not miss the bonus feature.