Taglines: One Nation Under The Gun.
Bowling for Columbine movie storyline. 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.
Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 American documentary film written, produced, directed, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Moore suggests are the primary causes for the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, and other acts of violence with guns. Moore focuses on the background and environment in which the massacre took place and some common public opinions and assumptions about related issues. The film also looks into the nature of violence in the United States.
A critical and commercial success, the film brought Moore international attention as a rising filmmaker and won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, a special 55th Anniversary Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film. The film is considered one of the greatest documentary films of all time.
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Directed by: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Arthur A. Busch, Dick Cheney, Marilyn Manson, Chris Rock, Denise Ames, Barry Glassner
Screenplay by: Michael Moore
Cinematography by: Brian Danitz, Michael McDonough
Film Editing by: Kurt Engfehr
Music by: Jeff Gibbs, Marilyn Manson, Fred Rogers
MPAA Rating: R for some violent images and language.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: October 11, 2002
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