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Roger & Me
starring: James Bond (IV), Pat Boone, Anita Bryant, Karen Edgely, Bob Eubanks

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790780238
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790780232
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 6184
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1989

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In 1989 Michael Moore winner of 2002's Best Documentary Feature Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbinetriumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Mea hilarious penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement to follow.Moore doggedly and hilariously tried to do what every working stiff dreams of: talk to the man at the top. His efforts to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Flint Michigan frame a film that uses humor to devsatating effect. Roger & Me champions people over profits and slyly lampoons corporate America as it shows how the Flint folks cope with economic setbacks.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 085392764525

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Roger and Me is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore, an everyman host with a devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the corporate giant for an interview.

While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colorful characters he meets along the way can be patronizing. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no one at GM wants to answer. --Sean Axmaker

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- Roger and Me DVD
Michael Moore tends to be a bit skewed in his perspective, however, when there is enough evidence to support his skewed perspective it makes for a more frigthening picture. My having lived in Flint, MI for nine years may not have ever happened had I seen the movie before the move there because I may never have moved- too much of it is (still) true!

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- Roger & Me DVD
Overall, Roger & Me was a great movie. The DVD cover had some scratches on it, but the DVD itself plays perfectly.

The DVD arrived rather quickly.

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- Roger is worse than Evel
"Roger and Me' is a riveting, fast-paced, fascinating and scitillating tale of Michael Moore's efforts to get the evil Roger to face him in front of his noble movie crew. I was at the edge my seat from the first to last second of this truly superb, academy award quality, film. We learn about how the hard working proletariat of the quaint village of Flint, Michigan have been foully betrayed by that behemoth of Capitalism--dare I say it--General Motors.

General Motors is outsourcing jobs to Mexico [?] and millions of people are being laid off. Most of the unemployed people turn to lives of crime, basketball, alcoholism and rabbit killing. It's absolutely disgusting--delicate women skinning rabbits to make fur coats for fat cat Capitalist women who never did a lick of real work.

Well, the General Motor Capitalists are doing right well for themselves in the midst of poverty and starvation. ... Read More

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- Moore in Michigan
Michael Moore's "Roger&Me" was revolutionary in its day. It was Michael Moore's first major documentary...back in his slimmer,less propagandistic days. Moore aptly tackled the subject of corporate corruption when trying to interview the said "Roger" who ran GM in Flint, Michigan and laid off thousands of his workers. Flint is shown to be a wasteland. A woman subsists on skinned rabbit. The city has fallen apart.

"Roger&Me" shows the divide between corporate culture and that of everyday people. Corporate honchos make millions while everyday people struggle to survive. It's timely,considering how oil companies are making obscenely huge profits while working class people try to get food on their tables and commute to work without going into debt.

"Roger&Me" was Michael Moore's debut. Unfortunately,he got plumper,angrier,and progressively wackier. It's a promising debut,with a strong ... Read More

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