Bowling for Columbine

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

Nov 15 2002 R 2h 0m
Crime, Documentary, Drama

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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Michael Moore

Directed by

Michael Moore

Cast

Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

United Broadcasting Inc., TiMe Film- und TV-Produktions GmbH, Salter Street Films International, Iconolatry Productions Inc., Dog Eat Dog Films, Alliance Atlantis Communications, Vif Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Zweite KG

Languages

English

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 39 wins & 13 nominations total

Trailers
Bowling For Columbine Trailer
Bowling for Columbine (2002) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
Scores
# of Votes
150,434
Average Rating
8 out of 10
Metascore
72
Popularity
NA