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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
8.1
Ratings: 8.1/10 from 86,548 users
Metascore:
72/100
Reviews: 867 user | 207 critic | 32 from Metacritic.com
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence. Director:Michael MooreWriter:Michael Moore |
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Richard Castaldo | ... |
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Himself - President of South Vietnam
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The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
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Official site | michaelmoore.com - Michael Moore responds... | Add/edit official sites »Language:
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Bowling à Columbine See more »Box Office
Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$209,148 (USA) (13 October 2002) (8 Screens)Gross:
$35,564,473 (Worldwide) (2002) (except USA)Company Credits
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Alliance Atlantis Communications, Dog Eat Dog Films, Iconolatry Productions Inc. See more »
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(1826) (uncredited)
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
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In 2003 became the first documentary to be nominated for and then to win a WGA Award for its screenplay. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: The film claims that that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attended a bowling class on the morning of the massacre. This is incorrect as testified in a judicial review. See more »Quotes
Michael Moore: The media, the corporations, the politicians... have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.See more »
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There is no cast list, either at the start of the film or at the end.People are credited either by subtitle, by the narrator or by themselves. See more »
Soundtracks
"Symphony No. 9 In D Minor (Choral), Opus 125"(1826) (uncredited)
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Excerpts from Movement 4 "Presto - Ode to Joy" in the score starting at the bowling alley sequence See more »
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