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Overview
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Directors:
Mark Achbar
Jennifer Abbott (co-director)
Writers:
Joel Bakan (written by)
Harold Crooks (narration) ...
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Release Date:
4 June 2004 (USA) more
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Plot:
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
11 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Working on the bottom line more (118 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Jane Akre | ... | Herself |
| Ray Anderson | ... | Himself |
| Maude Barlow | ... | Herself |
 | Chris Barrett | ... | Himself |
| Carlton Brown | ... | Himself |
| Smedley Darlington Butler | ... | Himself - USMC, exposes anti-FDR plot (archive footage) |
| Noam Chomsky | ... | Himself |
| Víctor Hugo Daza | ... | Himself - slain student, Bolivia (archive footage) |
| Peter Drucker | ... | Himself |
| Samuel Epstein | ... | Himself |
| Milton Friedman | ... | Himself |
 | Kathie Lee Gifford | ... | Herself (archive footage) |
| Naomi Klein | ... | Herself |
| Susan E. Linn | ... | Herself |
| Luke McCabe | ... | Himself |
 | Mikela J. Mikael | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| Robert Monks | ... | Himself |
 | Michael Moore | ... | Himself |
| Jonathan Ressler | ... | Himself |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Vandana Shiva | ... | Herself |
| Steve Wilson | ... | Himself |
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145 min | Argentina:150 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Hong Kong:165 min (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
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Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Brazil:10 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | Singapore:PG
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Bento Box, a graphics company, produced animations to take place behind the interviewees but they ended up distracting audience attention and so were dropped. more
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150 years ago, the business corporation was a relatively insignificant institution. Today, it is all-pervasive. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant institution. This documentary examines the nature...
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Features "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" (1981) more
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Bad Apple more
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After a relatively straightforward start exploring the definition of incorporation, this documentary made some fairly meaty punches on its target material.
With the exception of a few sentimental and outdated "the poor people fight back" strands, most of the attacks were well constructed. Beyond simply saying that to a corporation profit is everything, the more difficult case was made: that everything can be turned into a profit. And that includes life, death, and the truth.
The depiction of the Corporation as a psychopath was used to link most of the material. The talking heads were usually on the money, including both Michael "9/11" Moore and Noam "Manafacturing Consent" Chomsky.
But what the film does well was report specific cases that certainly included a few gems. An attempt to privatize water, IBM servicing Nazi accounting, an attempted coup in the US, Fox burying news and of course Monsanto being Monsanto. You couldn't make those guys up.
The attempt to look at alternatives to the worst forms of Capitalism were not so successful. Right wing defenders of profit-at-all-cost use short sentences with single syllable words. The poor want to be rich. We make things you like. We don't care. Much of the left wing however, cannot counter this clarity.
And the last frame had the ebullient Mr Moore telling us to get off the sofa and do something. Yeah, like vote for Bush again?