Noun: "a documentary film or programme which follows around its subject and/or intrudes upon his or her private life, particularly to a degree characterized as stalking"
"Wendy's is my favourite," agrees Moore, 43, an autoworker's son and the rumpled star of Roger & Me, the original "stalkumentary" and the biggest-grossing documentary in history.
The result is slight, but sweet in this hybrid of stalkumentary and romantic comedy. The filmmakers didn't haunt either Barrymore's home or office, but rather contacted her through people she knew or worked with.
[…] nor would Michael Moore’s reputation-making Roger & Me, without the original template of a witty documentary done at the NFB back in 1974 by Michael Rubbo – his Waiting for Fidel invented the stalkumentary.