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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music
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Director:
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Michael Moore
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Actors:
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Kevin J. O'Connor,
Steven Wright,
G.D. Spradlin,
John Candy,
Alan Alda,
Rhea Perlman,
Kevin Pollak,
Rip Torn,
Bill Nunn,
James Belushi
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)81.5
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Plot Summary:
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In this wacky parody on the icy contention fighting mentality, the president of the United States and an arms manufacturer find it in their best economic interests to transplant rumours of a potential atomic attack--around Canada. Then, following a confines episode at a hockey tournament, a loyalist sheriff and his deputies blueprint a counteroffensive...with amusing results.
Directed via activist-writer-television mogul Michael Moore, CANADIAN BACON combines the talents of John Sweetmeats and Dan Aykroyd with such actors and comedians as Steven Wright, Rupture Torn, and James Belushi. Th... e veil is reminiscent of the terrific Peter Sellers channel THE MOUSE THAT ROARED, which dealt with the Duchy of Total Fenwick declaring struggle on the Of one mind States in order to spend and thus ascertain millions in reparations.
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Canadian Bacon
This is a sufficiently irresponsible movie that doesn't live up to its ambitions as satire or as a comment on delicate civil motives. The festivity is meant to be at the expense of American-Canadian relations and the simpletons up north. Any halfway polite occurrence of Scheduled South is sharper at that. The factional thrust is the sad fact that affluent to struggle wins votes, and here it's the US President (Alda, since Fonda is dead) who needs favourite support and chooses his neighbours as the fall guys. A seemingly somnambulant cast does thimbleful to aide.
Canadian Bacon
Concert-master Michael Moore impressed both with his satirical documentary Roger & Me and his small-screen series TV Domain, but he came a cropper with this, his publicize debut. Reversing the old The Mouse That Roared raison d'etre, the alibi has US President Alan Alda declaring wage war with on Canada to lift his popularity rating. This should have been the signal in spite of some incisive irritated-trimming comedy, but Moore too often goes pro easy laughs and settles for governmental stereotypes instead of fully rounded characters. Kevin Pollak's drive doctor has a couple of good lines, but GD Spradlin's shady tycoon and John Confectionery's redneck sheriff typify the inactive characterisation.
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