Genre:
Culture & Society
Theatrical Release: 06/29/2007(USA)
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time:
Flags: Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Weinstein Company
After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in
Bowling for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in
Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker
Michael Moore turns his attentions toward the topic of health care in the United States in this
documentary that weighs the plight of the uninsured (and the insured who must deal with abuse from insurance companies) against the record-breaking profits of the pharmaceutical industry.
Moore interviews a number of people who have been left broke by medical bills even though they were fully insured, and explains how the corporate drive for profits has left numerous people in financial and medical disarray. After hearing that detainees in Guantanamo have access to free health care,
Moore assembles a group of World Trade Center rescue workers to travel to Cuba in order to get the medical help they need for ailments they incurred in 2001.
Moore's film debuted at the
2007 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide