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Synopsis: Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds for a war that was initiated on false pretension to wit: a weapon of mass distraction - to take the focus away from the real enemy and get Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis and Afghans getting killed. And a war that would eventually alienate the U.S.A. and it's citizens from almost every country on Earth.
Director(s): Michael Moore
Production: Lions Gate
  29 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
2004
122 min
$119,078,393
Website
964 Views


for the traditional walk

to the White House was scrapped;

Bush's limo hit the gas

to prevent an even larger riot.

No President had ever witnessed such a thing

on his inauguration day.

And for the next eight months

it didn't get any better for George W. Bush.

He couldn't get his judges appointed;

he had trouble getting his legislation passed;

and he lost Republican control of the Senate.

His approval ratings in the polls began to sink.

He was already beginning to look

like a lame duck President.

With everything going wrong

he did what any of us would do --

he went on vacation.

In his first eight months in office

before September 11th,

George W. Bush was on vacation,

according to the Washington Post,

forty-two percent of the time.

I hit every shot good;

people would say I wasn't working.

It was not surprising

that Mr. Bush needed some time off.

Being President is hard work.

Many folks say you're loafing here in Texas,

that you're taking too long of a vacation.

They don't understand the definition of work.

I'm getting a lot done.

Secondly, you don't have to be

in Washington to work.

It's amazing what can happen with telephones,

faxes, and...

What are you doing the rest of the day?

Uh, Karen Hughes is comin' over,

we're workin' on some things.

And uh, she'll be over here,

we're workin' on these things.

These matters.

I'm workin' on some initiatives.

We're uh...

you'll see.

There'll be some decisions

I'm gonna make while I'm here

and we'll be announcing them as time goes on.

The first I met him he had

some good advice for me.

Governor Bush, it's Michael Moore.

Behave yourself will ya;

go find real work.

And work was something he knew a lot about.

Anyone want some grits?

Relaxing at Camp David.

Yachting off Kennebunkport.

Or being a cowboy on the ranch in Texas.

I love the nature;

I love getting in the pickup

truck with my dogs.

George Bush spent the rest of August

at the ranch where life was less complicated.

I love to dig the soil looking for bugs

and uh, so um, I went out there the other day

and there was Barny buried in this hole

chasing an armadillo.

It was a summer to remember.

And when it was over,

he left Texas for his second favorite place.

On September 10,

he joined his brother in Florida

where they looked at files

and met important Floridians.

He went to sleep that night

in a bed made with fine French linens.

You suppose he's pretty confident

on those numbers on Iraqi security forces?

Make me look young.

Yeah, I got a little bit of sort of ear noise.

Don't turn it up too much,

don't want it to blow my head off.

On September 11th, 2001,

nearly 3,000 people -

including a colleague of mine, Bill Weems -

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Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author.One of his first films, Bowling for Columbine, examined the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and overall gun culture of the United States. For the film, Moore won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush and the War on Terror, which became the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time and winner of a Palme d'Or. His next documentary, Sicko, which examines health care in the United States, also became one of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical show. Moore's written and cinematic works criticize topics such as globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism overall. In 2005, Time magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people. more…

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