The 11th Hour (film)

Infobox Film
name = The 11th Hour


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caption = Promotional film poster
director = Nadia Conners
Leila Conners Petersen
writer = Nadia Conners
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leila Conners Petersen
narrator = Leonardo DiCaprio
starring = Leonardo DiCaprio
Stephen Hawking
Thom Hartmann
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sylvia Earle
James Woolsey
Andrew Weil
William McDonough
Paul Hawken
Wangari Maathai
David Suzuki
Andy Lipkis
[http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/98sep/orr_profile.html David Orr]
music = Jean-Pascal Beintus
Eric Avery
cinematography =
editing = Luis Alvarez y Alvarez
Pietro Scalia
distributor = Warner Independent Pictures
released = August 17, 2007
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country = USA
language = English
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website = http://www.11thhourfilm.com
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imdb_id = 0492931

"The 11th Hour" is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis, Pierre André Senizergues and Doyle Brunson, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", a movie-documentary-slideshow about global warming.

Plot

With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.

The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation. Scientists and environmental advocates such as [http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/98sep/orr_profile.html David Orr] , David Suzuki, Paul Stamets, and Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new and different future in which it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to mimic and coexist with them.

Quotes

Criticism

Patrick Moore, an early member of Greenpeace, now supported by the Nuclear Energy Institute, who later rejected traditional environmentalism, directly criticized Leonardo DiCaprio and the film "The 11th Hour" in an article for the Vancouver Sun on August 29, 2007 titled ‘An Inconvenient Fact’

Release

Box Office

The film generated $8,160,853 from four locations in its first weekend of release. [ [http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2007/08/iw_bot_hot_in_t.html iW BOT: Hot in Theaters] Retrieved on September 5, 2007]

ee also

*"An Inconvenient Truth" - another documentary about the same subject
*Global warming - the subject of both documentaries
*"List of documentaries"

References

External links

* [http://www.11thhourfilm.com 11thhourfilm.com]
* [http://www.11thhouraction.com Official Eleventh Hour Action site]
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* [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17912,00.html Leo Warms to Global-Warming Film] (E! Online article)
* [http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/dicaprio200705 Vanity Fair article]
* [http://www.earthlab.com/ EarhLab.com]