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Bowling for Columbine

20022h 0mDocumentary · Drama
directed by Michael Moore

“Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?”

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72 / 100
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Synopsis

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

Cast

Michael Moore·Self
George H. W. Bush·Self
George W. Bush·Self
Charlton Heston·Self - NRA President
Jacobo Árbenz·Self - President of Guatemala
Mike Bradley·Self - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Dick Clark·Self
Arthur A. Busch·Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan
Michael Caldwell·Self - Police Detective
Richard Castaldo·Self - Columbine Victim