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Synopsis: A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Michael Moore
Production: Warner Home Video
  14 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
R
Year:
1989
91 min
710 Views


a what-happens-if type of thing.

So this was GM chairman Roger Smith.

He appeared to have a brilliant plan:

First close 11 factories in the U. S...

then open 11 in Mexico, where

you pay the workers 70 cents an hour.

Use the money you saved by building cars

in Mexico to take over other companies...

preferably high-tech firms

and weapons manufacturers.

Next, tell the union you're broke...

and they happily give back

a couple of billion dollars in wage cuts.

Then take that money from workers...

and eliminate their jobs

by building more foreign factories.

Roger Smith was a true genius.

I think our employees

have got a new emphasis on job security...

and we want to try

and help them with that.

- What do you have to say to Roger Smith?

- t's gonna be rough.

I can't mention it on television.

This was to be

the first of many layoffs in Flint...

the final day for the GM truck plant.

I think most of you are aware...

that this is the first major plant closing...

to take place in Flint.

Let me rephrase that.

This isn't a plant closing.

It's a loss of one product line.

My friends and I decided to pose

as a TV crew from Toledo...

to sneak inside the factory.

I wasn't exactly sure

what a TV crew from Toledo looked like...

but apparently the ruse worked, as we

filmed the last truck going down the line.

What's everybody so happy about?

We just lost our jobs.

Everybody's applauding.

They just lost their jobs.

We're trying impress upon the employees

that are being laid off...

that there is nothing out there for them...

to depend upon for the future.

The best thing Michigan and GM can do

is get rid of Roger Smith...

and them other sons of b*tches.

That seemed to be

the general consensus...

as I talked to many GM workers

about their chairman, Roger Smith.

- What would you like to tell Roger Smith?

- 'd tell him to retire.

He can't look an auto worker

in the eye, because...

- He should be feeling guilty.

- Most people are hungry. He's not.

I'd tell him to get off his big bucks...

and start giving some of it

back to its workers.

I'm sick and tired of these damn fat cats.

I could say a few choice words,

but I'm a lady and I was raised a lady...

so I won't say what I really feel...

but I could use some unsavory language

as far as the fat cats.

Fire Roger Smith!

There were those

who had a different opinion in Flint...

like Tom Kay,

a spokesman and lobbyist for GM.

I'm sure that Roger Smith...

has a social conscience

as strong as anybody else in the country.

Because a guy is an automobile executive

does not make him inhuman.

I've talked to enough of them.

I know what their concerns are.

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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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