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Sicko (2007) 8.0
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8.0/10 from 53,694 users
Metascore: 74/100
Reviews: 420 user | 261 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. Director:Michael MooreWriter:Michael Moore |
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Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?" Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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USARelease Date:
22 June 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bolesno See more »Box Office
Budget:
$9,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£156,173 (UK) (26 October 2007)Gross:
£156,173 (UK) (26 October 2007)Company Credits
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British mother: [confused] I'm sorry?
Michael Moore: You gotta pay before you get out of here, right?
British mother: No.
British father: Na na na. Everything's on...
British mother: This is NHS.
British father: So no. It's not - it's not America.
[British couple laughs]
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Written by Philippe Cohen-Solal (as Phillippe Mauric Cohen Solal), Eduardo Makaroff (as Eduardo Anibal Makaraoff) and Christoph H. Müller (as Christoph Hermann Mueller)
Performed by Gotan Project
Courtesy of XL Recordings Ltd
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Trivia
Michael Moore's only documentary in which he doesn't have his director trademark of confrontational interviews (in this case with insurance representatives). See more »Goofs
The Italian version consistently mistranslates "bone marrow" as "spinal cord" (in Italian the two terms are more similar). See more »Quotes
Michael Moore: [to a British couple in hospital] What'd they charge you for that baby?British mother: [confused] I'm sorry?
Michael Moore: You gotta pay before you get out of here, right?
British mother: No.
British father: Na na na. Everything's on...
British mother: This is NHS.
British father: So no. It's not - it's not America.
[British couple laughs]
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Crazy Credits
After the end credits the following is displayed screen-filling: "Eat your fruits and vegetables. And go for a walk." See more »Soundtracks
"Una Musica Brutal"Written by Philippe Cohen-Solal (as Phillippe Mauric Cohen Solal), Eduardo Makaroff (as Eduardo Anibal Makaraoff) and Christoph H. Müller (as Christoph Hermann Mueller)
Performed by Gotan Project
Courtesy of XL Recordings Ltd
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I just got done watching this movie and no other movie I have seen in my life has had the impact on me that this movie has had.
My wife has M.S. and requires a LOT of medical treatment. Just ONE of her many prescriptions is a thousand (US) dollars a month. This very expensive experimental drug is nothing more than an old flu shot they are experimenting with. ( seriously )
I am a middle class skilled worker with great insurance.. and I may soon be homeless due in part to this. The other part is due to the corrupt banking system that I hope one day gets equally exposed.
I am now officially embarrassed to be a US citizen. If it wasn't for me already being middle aged and having 15 years seniority in a job I cannot replace... I would forever leave this so called "Free Country"
Peace Rich
rich3077@gmail.com