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Genres:
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Documentary
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Director:
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Michael Moore
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Actors:
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Bill Clinton,
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Aleida Guevara,
Tony Benn,
Reggie Cervantes,
John Graham,
William Maher,
Linda Peeno,
Michael Moore,
George W. Bush,
Richard Nixon
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)116.5
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Plot Summary:
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Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided alongside profit-oriented health sustentation organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about sell for, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris nearby French services, and he takes three 9/11 even-up volun... teers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for . He asks of Americans, "Who are we?"
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focuses on what he wants to think too much and how clever he thinks he is...
moore may have an excellent point that in America you either need an excellent healthcare plan through your own payments or through work, or you end up going bankrupt if you get ill and want to get treatment. however he offers nothing new or well investigated and focuses upon comparing America to other countries who do it 'better', and in several ways he illustrates that he does not adhere to the principle of documentary filmmaking (that you follow the truth even if the truth ends up being something you didn’t envision).
The next paragraph contains spoilers: for instance I live in Britain and I and almost everyone I know has the following experience – we are working class and know that if we get sick we either go private and pay or we can stick with the free NHS se...
Michael Moore,s most focussed film to date
Michael Moore polarises opinion like just about nobody else I can think of with the possible exception of George Galloway. His detractors ,namely the rich and powerful , neo cons and those stapled to the right politically plus the plain dumb and ignorant say( The plain dumb and ignorant probably don’t in all fairness, after all they are ignorant and dumb. They just know the guy rubs them up the wrong way) that he misrepresents the truth , lies even just to get his political agenda across. Coming from such an opinion base this is hypocrisy of the highest order. Stop whining …you lot do it all the time .Even if Michael Moore is bending reality sometimes, so what ,he’s playing these guys at their own game and they don’t like it which makes it imperative that he carr...
Sicko
Kenneth TuranNo one ever accused Michael Moore of not having a point of view.
A master propagandist and disturber of the peace with an eye for pretense and hypocrisy, Moore can orchestrate outrage pro and con like no one else. It wasn't an accident that his Fahrenheit 9/ll was the highest-grossing documentary of all time; it was business as usual.
Moore is back again examining America's healthcare system in the aptly named Sicko. It's likely his most important, most impressive, most provocative film, and it's different from his others in significant ways.
For one thing, Michael the Confronter, the man who relished face-to-face encounters with the rich and powerful, is no longer in evidence. "I wasn't in the mood to do that, it was not where my head...
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