Liberty Bound (2004)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Christine Rose

Writer:

Christine Rose (writer)

Release Date:

5 August 2004 (Hungary)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Is the United States bound for liberty - or do we just have Liberty Bound?

Plot:

Liberty Bound takes an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek look at America's on-going struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy...

Plot Keywords:

Democracy | Political | Michael Moore

Cast

Michael Parenti	...	Author & Social Commentator
Christine Rose	...	Narrator
Michael Ruppert	...	Himself
Howard Zinn	...	Historian

Directed by
Christine Rose

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Christine Rose		writer

Produced by
Lorraine Evanoff	....	executive producer
Patrick Gimenez	....	associate producer
Jackson P. Hamiter	....	associate producer
André Lazare	....	producer
Christine Rose	....	producer
Ethan Rose	....	executive producer
George Russell	....	associate producer

Original Music by
D.N.B. Pedergnana

Cinematography by
Daniel Drasin
K. James Peterson

Art Direction by
Manuel Guyon

Thanks
Michael Moore	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Blue Moose Films

Distributors

• Cinema Epoch (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2007) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• M&L Banks (2005) (USA) (all media)
• Take Off (2004) (France) (theatrical)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Blue Moose Films

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator: The United States of America: rich, diverse, well-fed, proud, free. The United States of America: poor, hungry, scared, oppressed. There are those who say the United States is an empire, a dictatorship possessing fascistic elements. There are others who insist it's a democracy...

Movie Connections:

Followed by Internationally Speaking (2005)

Deals with 9/11 with heart, compassion and scepticism

There are few enough films that really deal with this event, fewer still that deal with it on a truly personal level. Choosing to deal, not with the impact of 9/11 so much on New York, The nation or the world, but on the individual level of each person that Rose comes in contact with. It seems to be a journey of discovery, digging deeper than the immediate reaction to the tragedy. Getting past the move toward patriotism or conversely, cynicism and getting into what people feel is the behind the event. How do we look at the larger context of this catastrophe, resolve not to tread down the path of fear and learn from the mistakes of America's past. Rose asks the tough question, "How have the things we have done encouraged such attacks against us?" Almost no one out there has been willing to ask that question or the other questions the film poses about what will we sacrifice to regain the illusion of safety.