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Fahrenheit 9/11

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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 219 Fresh: 183  Rotten:36 Average Rating: 7.4/10
 
Consensus: Extremely one-sided in its indictment of the Bush administration, but worth watching for the humor and the debates it'll stir. Extremely one-sided in its indictment of the Bush administration, but worth watching for the humor and the debates it'll stir. more
 
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
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Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly controversial, and important documentary that won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film... [More]
Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly controversial, and important documentary that won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Using actual footage and declassified documents, Moore takes a detailed look into political events both before and after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, beginning with the polarizing Supreme Court decision that ultimately gave the state of Florida and the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Moore reveals how the U.S. government helped the bin Laden family return to Saudi Arabia immediately after September 11, when all other flights were still grounded; and examines military recruiting techniques in such poor areas as his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. He even attempts to get congressmen to enlist their own sons and daughters into the military. The writer-director also visits with the troops, including at a VA hospital where soldiers are having second thoughts about America's involvement in Iraq, and spends time with a family whose eldest son is fighting in Iraq. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is a worthy successor to Moore's previous documentaries, ROGER & ME, THE BIG ONE, and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, once again shining a light on the past, present, and future of the US. [Less]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush

Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn
Composer: Jeff Gibbs

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Oct 7, 2007

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Ranks, as a work of cinema, with the best of Santiago Alvarez and Esfir Shub.

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This is tense and gripping documentary, at turns hilarious and devastating.

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It's sprawling at times, but still uncomfortable, angry viewing in a time when apathy and resignation rule.

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07/09/04 08:17 AM
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This extremely well-assembled film has value on so many levels that it simply demands to be seen.

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The director has always been at his strongest on the cusp between anger and humour, but there are simply too few such inspired episodes here.

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05/18/04 06:36 PM
Stephen Dalton
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Moore portrays Bush as a thicko hick who spent 42% of his first eight months in office on vacation.

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The movie's conclusions -- true or otherwise -- and highly emotional interviews with bereaved parents and injured soldiers will have a big impact on audiences around the world.

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Isn't quite the bullseye Moore's supporters are hoping for and Bush's supporters are dreading.

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If all the world is truly a stage, then leftie bad boy Michael Moore is chief scavenger of the behind-the-scenes skeletons in the storage closet.

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05/24/07 07:05 AM
Prairie Miller
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The problem with Fahrenheit 9/11 is not that it is one-sided, per se; it is that Moore barely acknowledges there even is another side.

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09/28/06 02:28 PM
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Fahrenheit is, by turns, entertaining, incisive, infuriating, heartbreaking and (this being Moore) slickly populist

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08/21/06 02:14 PM
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I want to hug Michael Moore. Then slap him.

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07/02/06 06:42 PM
Gina Carbone
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Michael Moore proves in his scathing yet facile anti-Bush documentary that more than a good filmmaker he is first and foremost indefatigably populist comedian for whom timing is everything.

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Emanuel Levy
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En general, Michael Moore no es, ni ha sido, un ejemplo de profundidad en el análisis de sus extremas posiciones políticas.

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