Manufacturing Dissent (2007)

Directors:

Rick Caine
Debbie Melnyk

Writers:

Rick Caine (writer)
Debbie Melnyk (writer)

Release Date:

5 October 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

It's never been so hard to get Michael Moore in front of a camera.

Plot:

A documentary that looks to distinguish what's fact, fiction, legend, and otherwise as a camera crew trails Michael Moore as he tours with his film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Cast

Dave Barber
Peter Bart
Tony Bennett
Elizabeth Bourgeois
José Bové
Laura Bush
Rick Caine	...	Himself
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Dick Cheney
Noam Chomsky	...	Himself
Wesley Clark
Peter Damon
Howard Dean
John Derevlany
Phil Donahue
Michael Donovan
Mark Dowie	...	Himself - former investigative journalist
Ryan Eashoo
Roger Ebert
Diedre English
Al Franken
Janeane Garofalo	...	Herself
Richard Gere	...	Himself
David Gilmour
Kathleen Glynn
Danny Goldberg
Ben Hamper	...	Himself
Sean Hannity
Terri Hardesty
Don Hazen
Joseph Heath
James Hirsen
Christopher Hitchens	...	Himself
Adam Hochschild
Jim Hubbard
Jesse Jackson
Gilles Jacob
Harlan Jacobson	...	Himself
Mick Jagger
Jim Kenefick
John Kerry
Jesse Larner
Chris Lehmann
Chad Lowe
Henriette Mantel
Dave Marsh
Jack Matthews
Albert Maysles	...	Himself
Nick McKinney
Debbie Melnyk
Moby
Anne Moore
Michael Moore	...	Himself
Errol Morris	...	Himself
Govindini Murty
Ralph Nader	...	Himself
Alanis Obomsawin
Bill O'Reilly
John Pierson	...	Himself
Kevin Rafferty
Ronald Reagan
Sam Riddle
Roseanne	...	Herself
Guy Saperstein
Susan Sarandon	...	Herself
Barbara Schroeder
Roger B. Smith
Ken Starr
Helga Stephenson
Quentin Tarantino	...	Himself
Peter von Bagh	...	Himself
Harvey Weinstein
Mike Westfall
Haskell Wexler
Michael Wilson
Byron York

Also Known As:

Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Persistence of Vision Productions

Trivia:

This film alleges that Michael Moore did speak with Roger B. Smith twice in 1987 (at General Motors' shareholders meeting) and 1988 (at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York), but Michael Moore didn't put that footage in Roger & Me (1989). However, even Roger B. Smith himself said in a 1990 interview with Los Angeles Times that he had never stayed at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Michael Moore himself also denied this allegation to Associated Press: Moore said that he did speak with Roger Smith at the 1987 shareholders' meeting, but that was before he started working on Roger & Me (1989) and the conversation had nothing to do with the film.

Quotes:

Dave Marsh: If you won't tell the truth because it's bad for the cause then the cause becomes a fiction, which is exactly what's happened. It's happened with the Left in the United States as a whole and it's happened with Michael Moore.

Movie Connections:

References Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

It is amazing..

how people will defend Michael Moore as if somehow showing he is dishonest is representative of the democrat party as a whole. I found this movie an honest look at Michael Moore and who the man really is, compared to what he sells himself to be. Sure, the filmmakers were probably a little miffed at Moore by the end of their film, but that was a result of Michael's mentality. He claims to support the little man, but offers little support for the crew of this film who ask time and again for a sit down interview.

Michael is doing the same thing that he demonized Roger Smith for supposedly doing 20 years ago. On top of that his excuses are incredibly lame. "I can't interview with you until after the election, but then I have to sleep for 6 months,.. then we can do an interview." "Oh now, I can't do an interview because I am about to start my next movie, and it will be another years or so before I could possibly do an interview." (not exact quote mind you)You would expect someone like him to not only be supportive of those who admire him, but also a fellow documentary filmmaker.

So yes a large part of this film is meant to show Moore's character, which seems to have more of the same qualities as the type of people he claims to be against as opposed to those he claims to defend. Apart from that it is not hard to find evidence of his factual inaccuracies in his films. It amazes me how people still defend his work only because he is outspoken and shares the same political views. A little research will bring up many things that show how dishonest his work is.

Bottom line.. this is a film made by left winged filmmakers who are not making a documentary against democrats, but rather a dishonest filmmaker that ultimately would do more to harm the party he claims to represent rather than help it. I don't care how much I agreed with someone's view points, I would never support someone that was this dishonest, and in fact would be ashamed to have them be apart of my party.