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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
8.1
Ratings: 8.1/10 from 86,419 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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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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Is America a nation of gun nuts? Or just nuts? See more »Parents Guide:
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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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George W. Bush: [Archive speech] One way to express our unity is for Congress to set the military budget and the defense of the United States as the number one priority, and fully fund my request...
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presented by the National Rifle Association (NRA). See more »
(ca 1856) (uncredited)
Music by William Steffe
Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe (1862)
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In May 2002, became first documentary to compete in the Cannes Film Festival's main competition in 46 years. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: A clip of a Godzilla-type monster roaring is shown while showing gun-related death rates for Japan. The clip, however, is from Gorgo, which was a UK production. See more »Quotes
Michael Moore: In George Bush's America the poor were not a priority. And after September 11th correcting America's social problems took a back seat to fear, panic and a new set of priorities.George W. Bush: [Archive speech] One way to express our unity is for Congress to set the military budget and the defense of the United States as the number one priority, and fully fund my request...
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During the opening, archive footage is presented that claims the movie ispresented by the National Rifle Association (NRA). See more »
Soundtracks
"Battle Hymn of the Republic"(ca 1856) (uncredited)
Music by William Steffe
Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe (1862)
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