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Bowling for Columbine (2002)

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86%
(430 votes)
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100%
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Release Date
• USA: Oct 11, 2002
• UK: 15 Nov 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 19, 2003
• R2: 12 May 2003

Budget $4,000,000
BoxOffice: $21.2M

Official Website:
Bowling for Columbine Website

MPAA Rating
Rated R for some violent images and language.

Running Time
2 hours, 0 minutes

Country Canada, USA, Germany

Production Companies
Alliance Atlantis Communications (as Alliance Atlantis), Dog Eat Dog Films, Iconolatry Productions Inc., Salter Street Films International (as Salter Street Films), TiMe Film- und TV-Produktions GmbH, United Broadcasting Inc. (uncredited), Vif Babelsberger Film

Studio Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films

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Genre: Documentary, Satire, School / Campus, Political, Society, Murder, Black Comedy, Police, Law

Tagline: Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?

Plot: Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore asks some serious questions as he probes the depths of America's trigger-happy gun culture in the insightful and amusing documentary, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. Guns in America are used to kill an average of more than 11,000 people per year. This death toll is obscenely out of balance with other first world countries, which generally average a total in double digits. Experts and analysts have pointed to America's bloody history as a reason, but how does that explain the lower murder rate in Germany? Violent entertainment has also been fingered, but how does this account for staggeringly low numbers in Japan, home of the most violent entertainment video games on the market.

Moore's trademark comedic tone is razor-sharp as his quest leads him everywhere from Littleton Colorado's Columbine High School to the home of NRA President Charlton Heston. Moore, oddly enough a lifetime NRA member, makes his main target the news media, but also fires away at inefficient welfare programs, Dick Clark, and Kmart. The latter is even compelled to make a major policy change in their stores due to one of Moore's confrontational stunts. This exploration into America's obsession with guns is disarmingly humorous, but Moore also asks challenging questions and

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 Directed by
Michael Moore
Canadian Bacon, Sicko, TV Nation
 Written by
Michael Moore
A Brief History of the United States of America, Fahrenheit 9/11, Edtv
 Cast
Charlton Heston
Tombstone, Ben-Hur, Any Given Sunday
George Bush
Fahrenhype 9/11, Grass, Bush's Brain
George W. Bush
9/11, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Fahrenhype 9/11
[more]
 Music By
Jeff Gibbs
Fahrenheit 9/11

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