Michael Moore Hates America

Michael Moore Hates America
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Michael Wilson
Produced by	Carr Hagerman
Written by	Michael Wilson
Starring	Andrew Breitbart Peter Damon Dinesh D'Souza Sandra Froman Michael Moore Michael Wilson
Cinematography	Carr Hagerman Christopher Ohlsen Michael Wilson
Editing by	Greg Browning
Distributed by	HCW Films
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	125 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Michael Moore Hates America is a documentary film directed by Mike Wilson that criticizes director Michael Moore. It premiered September 12, 2004, in Dallas, Texas, at the American Film Renaissance film festival.^[1][2][3][4]

Details

The movie and its poster are patterned after Moore's film Roger & Me, during which Moore attempts to chase down Roger Bonham Smith for an interview. In this case, Wilson seeks an interview with Moore. Wilson also adopts other aspects of Moore's style in his efforts at satirizing Moore. For instance, Wilson interviews a mix of Americans across the country and well-known figures like conservatives Dinesh D'Souza, David Horowitz and Andrew Breitbart, liberal Albert Maysles and fellow libertarians such as Penn Jillette and Tim Slagle. Wilson revisits some of Moore's shooting locations and subjects from Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine, and discredits many aspects of Moore's films.^[3]

Wilson's main criticism is that Moore misrepresents the truth by (1) staging events and (2) deftly cutting sequences to distort the truth. As an example of (1), Michael Wilson offers the scene in Bowling for Columbine where Michael Moore gets a gun on opening a bank account. An interview with the bank employees suggests that Michael Moore had arranged for the gun to be delivered to the bank ahead of time so he could walk outside with it immediately after opening the bank account. As an example of (2), Michael Wilson offers the scenes in Bowling for Columbine of NRA president Charlton Heston speaking. The scenes are cut together from different speeches; however, in the film they may be construed to be from one speech given shortly after the Columbine shooting at a meeting in Denver.^[5]

Wilson acknowledges that he misrepresented the name of the movie on numerous occasions when interviewing individuals for it.^[6]

Reception

Reviews were generally favorable.^[7] Some favored the film's examination of Moore's methods.^[4] Movie critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, of Ebert and Roeper, gave the film Two Thumbs Up.^[8]

References

1. ^ Afrfilmfestival.com
2. ^ The New York Times
3. ^ ^{a b} The New York Times
4. ^ ^{a b} Variety
5. ^ Alternet.org
6. ^ DVD Talk
7. ^ Rotten Tomatoes
8. ^ Ebert and Roeper's show

External links

• Michael Moore Hates America at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Moore Hates America at AllRovi
• Michael Moore Hates America at Rotten Tomatoes