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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
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Ratings: 8.1/10 from 89,199 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 869 user | 208 critic | 32 from Metacritic.com Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence. Director:Michael MooreWriter:Michael Moore |
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Himself - President of South Vietnam
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Corporate Criminal (DVD only)
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Storyline
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Summary | Plot SynopsisTaglines:
One Nation Under The Gun See more »Parents Guide:
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Official site | michaelmoore.com - Michael Moore responds... | Add/edit official sites »Language:
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Bowling à Columbine See more »Box Office
Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$209,148 (USA) (13 October 2002) (8 Screens)Gross:
$35,564,473 (Worldwide) (2002) (except USA)Company Credits
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Alliance Atlantis Communications, Dog Eat Dog Films, Iconolatry Productions Inc. See more »
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presented by the National Rifle Association (NRA). See more »
Written by Donald McCloskey, Bob Golden & Lance Doss
Performed by Bob Golden & Lance Doss
Sung by Daryl Pediford
Courtesy of Savvy Kat Music See more »
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Because the film didn't fit neatly into any established categories at Cannes, the Jury created a special 55th Anniversary Award just for the film. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: As Charlton Heston walks away from Michael Moore in the final interview, the scene cuts repeatedly between Heston (point of view from behind Moore) and Moore (point of view from the stairs directly in front of Moore) holding a photo of the slain Flint, Michigan girl and asking Heston to look at it. When the POV is of Moore holding the photo, there is clearly no cameraman anywhere behind him. The same with the POV of Heston, there is clearly no cameraman anywhere in front of Moore. So the two POVs were not filmed simultaneously as the film implies. See more »Crazy Credits
During the opening, archive footage is presented that claims the movie ispresented by the National Rifle Association (NRA). See more »
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"Corporation Man"Written by Donald McCloskey, Bob Golden & Lance Doss
Performed by Bob Golden & Lance Doss
Sung by Daryl Pediford
Courtesy of Savvy Kat Music See more »
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