Mister America is a 2019 documentary directed by Josh Lorton, documenting Tim Heidecker's campaign to run for District Attorney.

Tim Heidecker is the host of the web series On Cinema at the Cinema, where he and a cast of guests review films. After transitioning to being an electronic musician and hosting a music festival, he faces murder charges when 20 people overdose and die at the event and an additional 156 are hospitalized. He ends up beating the charge with a hung jury mistrial and sets out to become district attorney of San Bernardino County, despite not being an attorney or a resident of San Bernardino and to take revenge on Vincent Rosetti, the prosecutor of his case.

The film begins with a small crew following Heidecker going door to door to drum up enough signatures for him to be on the ballot as a third party candidate. He works with his campaign manager Toni Newman, who was also the sole juror to not find Heidecker guilty at his murder trial. The duo have an ad campaign made up of social media posts and yard signs mocking Rosetti as a rat and Heidecker briefly confronts him on camera before the D.A. drives away with no comment. Heidecker starts to crack under the pressure, excessively drinking and using the TCH vape system that previously addicted him and was responsible for killing the youth at his music festival.

Newman attempts to get press coverage that falls through at the last minute, fails to buy an ad in the local paper on time, and attempts to stage a debate where neither of Heidecker's opponents attend. Among the six crowd members is Heidecker's frequent guest host from On Cinema at the Cinema, Gregg Turkington. Turkington reaches out to the film crew to convince them to abandon the project and see Heidecker as a criminal and failure who has no passion for film. Heidecker has a meltdown and storms out of the event. Even though he and Newman forge several signatures, his name does not appear on the ballot and Rosetti is re-elected.

In a drug-induced haze, Heidecker calls Rosetti from the hotel room that doubles as his campaign headquarters and starts out gracefully conceding and offering congratulations before devolving into insults and threats. He passes out and the next day, he takes the crew to the condemned site of the music festival, where he creates a makeshift memorial to the youth who died.

The film received mixed reviews, with a 66% rating out of 29 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Some of the harshest critics were Tim and Gregg themselves, having reviewed the movie after release. Tim gave the film a rare zero bags of popcorn, advising the audience to avoid the film “at all costs”. He blasts the blatant mischaracterization and lies, along with the inclusion of scenes that he had specifically asked Josh not to include. He calls Josh incredibly disrespectful and, later on, reveals his personal phone number to the public.

Gregg was disappointed that the film did not focus on the Victorville Film Archives, despite giving Josh “hours and hours” of “completely legitimate” footage at the VFA, instead focusing on Tim and the “illegal” footage. He gave the film a mere 3 bags of popcorn.

• This is the first theatrical film in the On Cinema universe.
  • This is also the second and most recent theatrical film to be produced by Adult Swim, the first being Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.
• Mister America was originally intended to be much shorter and released online by Adult Swim. While editing it, they saw potential in the film being released theatrically, and with the urging of Nathan Fielder, they did exactly that.^[1]
• Mister America was distributed by Magnolia Pictures, who had previously released Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie and Entertainment, which starred Gregg Turkington and was co-written by him, Tim, and Rick Alverson.
• The film was released on DVD (but not VHS or Blu-ray) January 14, 2020. Extras include:
  • An out of character commentary featuring Tim, Gregg, director Eric Notarnicola, and producer Andrew Porter
  • A deleted scene of Tim and Toni making phone calls
  • Two campaign ads, one for Tim (featuring Joe Estevez) and one for Rosetti
  • “specialedition”, an exclusive episode of On Cinema at the Cinema, with Tim and Gregg expressing their excitement to see the movie
  • The original theatrical trailer
• Sarah "Squirm" Sherman appears as an off-screen heckler that makes Tim leave a restaurant. Around this time, she worked on various Adult Swim productions including Flayaway and The Eric Andre Show, before becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member in 2021.

• Mister America official website
• Mister America on JustWatch, a streaming availability site
• [META] Mister America on Wikipedia