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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 220

Fresh: 184

Rotten:36

Average Rating: 7.3/10

Consensus: Extremely one-sided in its indictment of the Bush administration, but worth watching for the humor and the debates it'll stir.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violent and disturbing images and for language

Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jun 25, 2004 Limited

Box Office: $119,078,393

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly... Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore examines the Bush administration's financial ties to Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family in FAHRENHEIT 9/11, a well-researched, fast-paced, highly controversial, and important documentary that won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Using actual footage and declassified documents, Moore takes a detailed look into political events both before and after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, beginning with the polarizing Supreme Court decision that ultimately gave the state of Florida and the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Moore reveals how the U.S. government helped the bin Laden family return to Saudi Arabia immediately after September 11, when all other flights were still grounded; and examines military recruiting techniques in such poor areas as his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. He even attempts to get congressmen to enlist their own sons and daughters into the military. The writer-director also visits with the troops, including at a VA hospital where soldiers are having second thoughts about America's involvement in Iraq, and spends time with a family whose eldest son is fighting in Iraq. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is a worthy successor to Moore's previous documentaries, ROGER & ME, THE BIG ONE, and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, once again shining a light on the past, present, and future of the US. [More]

Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush

Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush

Director: Michael Moore

Director: Michael Moore
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn
Composer: Jeff Gibbs
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Michael Moore's fierce and funny Fahrenheit 9/11 is not so much a documentary as a mythology, reducing geopolitical complexities to a neat, tawdry narrative.

Full Review Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) | comment Comment
06/03/09
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Populist documentarian Michael Moore raises crucial questions about the ersatz presidency of George Bush in an air of simplicity and honest curiosity.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/18/09
Cole Smithey
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08/07/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

Isn't quite the bullseye Moore's supporters are hoping for and Bush's supporters are dreading.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/03/08
Rob Gonsalves
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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

If all the world is truly a stage, then leftie bad boy Michael Moore is chief scavenger of the behind-the-scenes skeletons in the storage closet.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
05/24/07
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

The problem with Fahrenheit 9/11 is not that it is one-sided, per se; it is that Moore barely acknowledges there even is another side.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
09/28/06
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today

Fahrenheit is, by turns, entertaining, incisive, infuriating, heartbreaking and (this being Moore) slickly populist

Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment Comment
08/21/06
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal

I want to hug Michael Moore. Then slap him.

Full Review Source: Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) | comment Comment
07/02/06
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)

Michael Moore proves in his scathing yet facile anti-Bush documentary that more than a good filmmaker he is first and foremost indefatigably populist comedian for whom timing is everything.

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06/25/06
Emanuel Levy
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01/26/06
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12/06/05
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12/06/05
Film Threat

Moore's best and most mature effort to date.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment Comment
06/20/05
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

Fair and balanced, as Fox News might say, this is not.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment 3 Comments
05/03/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Moore's film doesn't set out to convert the hardcore faithful. It sets out to convert the concerned, the independent and the open.

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04/17/05
Wesley Lovell
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