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Actor: Anita Bryant, Bob Eubanks, James Bond (IV), Karen Edgely, Pat BooneBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Moore in Michigan
Summary: 5 Stars
Michael Moore's "Roger&Me" was revolutionary in its day. It was Michael Moore's first major documentary...back in his slimmer,less propagandistic days. Moore aptly tackled the subject of corporate corruption when trying to interview the said "Roger" who ran GM in Flint, Michigan and laid off thousands of his workers. Flint is shown to be a wasteland. A woman subsists on skinned rabbit. The city has fallen apart.
"Roger&Me" shows the divide between corporate culture and that of everyday people. Corporate honchos make millions while everyday people struggle to survive. It's timely,considering how oil companies are making obscenely huge profits while working class people try to get food on their tables and commute to work without going into debt.
"Roger&Me" was Michael Moore's debut. Unfortunately,he got plumper,angrier,and progressively wackier. It's a promising debut,with a strong message about corporate responsibility. Capitalism is good when it's moral,not when it makes profits at the expense of the everyday person.
Summary of Roger & Me
In 1989 Michael Moore winner of 2002's Best Documentary Feature Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbinetriumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Mea hilarious penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement to follow. Moore doggedly and hilariously tried to do what every working stiff dreams of: talk to the man at the top. His efforts to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Flint Michigan frame a film that uses humor to devsatating effect. Roger & Me champions people over profits and slyly lampoons corporate America as it shows how the Flint folks cope with economic setbacks.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 085392764525Roger and Me is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore, an everyman host with a devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the corporate giant for an interview.
While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colorful characters he meets along the way can be patronizing. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no one at GM wants to answer. --Sean Axmaker
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