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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790780238
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790780232
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 5856
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1989
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In 1989 Michael Moore winner of 2002's Best Documentary Feature Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Bowling for Columbinetriumphantly burst upon the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Mea hilarious penetrating forerunner of the independent film movement to follow. Moore doggedly and hilariously tried to do what every working stiff dreams of: talk to the man at the top. His efforts to meet General Motors Chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to visit Flint Michigan frame a film that uses humor to devsatating effect. Roger & Me champions people over profits and slyly lampoons corporate America as it shows how the Flint folks cope with economic setbacks.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 085392764525
Amazon.com essential video:
Roger and Me is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore, an everyman host with a devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the corporate giant for an interview.
While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colorful characters he meets along the way can be patronizing. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no one at GM wants to answer. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  - Moore in Michigan
Michael Moore's "Roger&Me" was revolutionary in its day. It was Michael Moore's first major documentary...back in his slimmer,less propagandistic days. Moore aptly tackled the subject of corporate corruption when trying to interview the said "Roger" who ran GM in Flint, Michigan and laid off thousands of his workers. Flint is shown to be a wasteland. A woman subsists on skinned rabbit. The city has fallen apart.
"Roger&Me" shows the divide between corporate culture and that of ... Read More
Rating: - Ummm ... I think you all are missing the POINT ...
WOW! After reading the reviews of this film, then watching the film, I have come to the conclusion that all of you that have commented that this film is a "comedy" ... are demented. Whomever feels that this is a COMEDY, is "touched".
I found the responses to Michael's questions, and the NON-responses to his questions, to be ludicrous and unbelievable, but I did NOT find them to be FUNNY.
Look at our economy here in 2008, and THEN laugh at this film. It's all still happening! ... Read More
Rating:  - The awful truth about Michael Moore
I agree on the majority of Moore's political views and used to be a huge fan. However, more and more I learned about his techniques to get a point across. This film which happens to be - like all his other films - tremendoulsy entertaining is by no means a documentary. The reason: The extent to which Moore bends the truth is called even among the most unethical journalists "lies":
- Moore who in this picture tries to get to talk to the GM ceo Roger Smith DID GET to talk to him. Moore tried ... Read More
Rating:  - One sided story
Michael Moore gives a very biased view of Roger Smith. This film illustrates the uneducated Michael Moore. Michael Moore fails to shed light on many of the economical problems facing GM and Flint.
Rating: - A Humorous and Satirical Classic
Roger and Me launched Michael Moore's career. He has mastered the art of using humor to make serious social and political commentary. While some of his movies have treaded on controversial grounds, this one just asks a simple question. Is it right for corporate CEO's to accept lavish salaries and huge raises while their company loses money and exports jobs overseas? If you find this to be a reasonable question, you won't find Roger and Me politically objectionable. You'll admire how this master of ... Read More
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