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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) 7.3
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Metascore: 61/100
Reviews: 182 user | 214 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the ... See full summary » Director:Michael MooreWriter:Michael Moore |
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Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan. With both humor and outrage, the film explores the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore goes into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal...and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story also presents what a more hopeful future could look like. Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do? Written by Overture Films
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2 October 2009 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$231,964 (USA) (25 September 2009)Gross:
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Jesus: When you deregulate the banking industry.
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from Symphony No. 9 In D Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by London Classical Players
Conducted by Roger Norrington
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd./Virgin Classics
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
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Originally announced as a direct follow up to Fahrenheit 9/11 after President George W. Bush was elected to a second term, Michael Moore gradually decided that the film would focus more on corporate America, until the 2008 financial crisis and resulting Wall Street bailout prompted him to rework the film again to center on that story. See more »Goofs
The film depicts a boarded-up house in Bellington, WA; there is no such city in Washington state. It likely meant to say Bellingham, WA. See more »Quotes
Israelite: You say the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. But when exactly will it be?Jesus: When you deregulate the banking industry.
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The foreclosure company has moved out of Flint, leaving only a PO Box and more unemployed workers behind. See more »Soundtracks
"II. Molto Vivace - Presto"from Symphony No. 9 In D Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by London Classical Players
Conducted by Roger Norrington
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd./Virgin Classics
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
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Reading some of the other reviews of Capitalism: A Love Story, it soon becomes clear that those leaving low scores either haven't seen the film or have a particular agenda to smear the movie - one reviewer seems to think Angela Merkel's Germany (a centre right politician!) is 'Socialist'! It is this deliberate dumbing down in America of issues surrounding what capitalism is and does (as opposed to socialism) that enabled the conditions for the banks to exploit the worst off in American society and force the taxpayers to foot the bill by bailing them out - and why Americans are still without a universal free healthcare system. Moore takes great pains, and succeeds, in highlighting how this culture of demonising anything that criticises rampant and unregulated free market economics has been firmly established in US society. He has clearly undertaken a measure of research in the production - numerous sources/interviews and facts are used in the narrative - but the best thing for me was that he still manages to keep the more complicated aspects of banking and loans extremely accessible (I'm hopeless at maths!).
Comments that Moore is a socialist are extremely juvenile - Moore is a socialist in the same way that Ghandi was a terrorist or Jesus was a trouble maker.
All in all a very informative and inspiring documentary that dares to mention the elephant taking a big dump in the room.