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Bowling for Columbine

Name: Bowling for Columbine
Director: Michael Moore
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2002
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Michael Moore, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Charlton Heston, Jacobo Árbenz

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

2002 · Directed by Michael Moore · 120 min · Documentary · Drama · 12 frames

Tagline

Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?

Crew

Written by: Michael Moore
Edited by: Kurt Engfehr
Music: Jeff Gibbs
Produced by: Jim Czarnecki, Michael Donovan, Charles Bishop, Kathleen Glynn

Cast

Michael Moore as Self
George H. W. Bush as Self
George W. Bush as Self
Charlton Heston as Self - NRA President
Jacobo Árbenz as Self - President of Guatemala
Mike Bradley as Self - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Dick Clark as Self
Arthur A. Busch as Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan
Michael Caldwell as Self - Police Detective
Richard Castaldo as Self - Columbine Victim

Production

Country: Canada, Germany, United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Vif Babelsberger Filmproduktion, Alliance Atlantis, Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films
Budget: $4,000,000
Box office: $35,564,473
Themes: canada, gun, homicide, mass murder, oklahoma city bombing, american culture, gun violence, shocking, satirical, mass shooting

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