
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
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| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelRoger & Me is a pointedly hilarious documentary about a subject that isn't remotely funny, the indifference of corporate America to the lives of its workers. First-time filmmaker Michael Moore shows a city ruined, not by lack of drive and hard work, but by simple corporate greed. He uses humor to keep the viewer involved in what could easily have been an unbearably depressing film. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. Nesbitdemonstrates that this genré can be as hilarious as any comedy on the market and provide some sharp political muckraking to boot. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJudy StoneRoger & Me is a terrific movie, but if it were a great one, those images would reverberate with the shareholders' meetings and the AutoWorlds and the Gatsby parties. |
| Examiner.comJeff BeckMichael Moore's film is intelligent, funny, in-depth, and touching, all executed with a gripping hands-on approach to the material that helps engage the audience more than you're standard talking heads documentary. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayThe film itself remains a hard kick in the head-a funny, angry inquiry into what the hell happened to the American dream. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatAn inventive, darkly comic, and prophetic documentary about corporate America and unemployement. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonIn Roger & Me, Moore's brand of slapstick reportage strikes the perfect balance between irony and sincerity; it's slyly deadpan and committed, democratic and kingly all at once. In the end, though, he winds up giving ironic credence to the swells at the Great Gatsby party who advise the laid-off workers to get out there and do something. He's shown what one man with a camera crew and a vision can do. |
| EmpireMat SnowAn affecting, impressive debut from a filmmaker with an innate taste for modern America's clashes of conscience. An important document. |
| NewsweekJohn SchwartzFor all his legitimate laments and pithy documentary moments, Moore gloats too much over his treasure. Where Moore makes his mark is basically where he shuts up and, like a good documentarian ought to, lets the subjects do the talking. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzRails against corporate greed and asks what happened to the American Dream and its promise of middle-class prosperity. |