Roger and Me

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(thing) by Jet-Poop (12 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Thu Aug 24 2000 at 1:37:16

Funny documentary, released in 1989, which features director Michael Moore trying without success to personally meet General Motors head Roger Smith to confront him with the widespread poverty visited on Flint, Michigan, after GM closed its plants there. The film captures some really odd moments--a woman selling rabbits as "pets or meat" (and kills one onscreen for supper); a sheriff reluctantly evicting people just before Christmas; Moore catching game show host Bob Eubanks telling racist jokes; Flint's failed automobile theme park; and Moore's attempts to locate Smith at ritzy garden parties, the GM offices, and a meeting of the stockholders.

Moore has been able to turn this movie's incredible success (well, success for a documentary, at least) into a career as a political and corporate gadfly.

Michael Moore	The USA has fucked up priorities	gadfly	An open letter to Michael Moore
Why nothing would change if Ralph Nader were elected	Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation	Flint, Michigan	Adventures in a TV Nation
Bowling for Columbine	pets or meat	The Nation	The Big One
Tim Hortons	Roger Smith	Sundance Film Festival	Toxic Sludge Is Good For You
Roger Wilco	independent film	General Motors	GM
A Prayer to Afflict the Comfortable	Having a shoplifter arrested is apparently an act of racism	Michael Moores' October Surprise	People who are not anarchists

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