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Movie: Bowling for Columbine (2002)

• Director: Michael Moore
• Release Date: 29 May 2003 (Hong Kong)
• Run Time: 120 min
• Country: Canada , USA , Germany
• Genre: Documentary , History  
• MPAA: Rated R for some violent images and language.

Tagline: Is America a nation of gun nuts? Or just nuts?  

Trivia: When the movie won the Best Documentary award at the Oscars, Michael Moore sparked a controversy by denouncing the George W. Bush administration on stage.
 

Goofs: Factual errors: The film claims that that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attended a bowling class on the morning of the massacre. This is incorrect as testified in a judicial review.
 

“The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America’s culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)”