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Bowling for Columbine (2002) | User Rating
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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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The movie's passion to get things right and actually put things on screen the way they actually is amazing as is the efforts made by the cast and crew to shoot these remarkable moments.  -- (terrorwatch.net)
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Michael Moore
A Brief History of the United States of America, Fahrenheit 9/11, Edtv |
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