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Roger & Me is a 1989 American documentary film written, produced, directed by, and starring Michael Moore, in his directorial debut.
Dec 20, 1989 · Roger & Me. After General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith.
In 1989, Michael Moore burst onto the American movie-making scene with Roger and Me. The groundbreaking documentary chronicled the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town.
Director Michael Moore is a treat as a deadpan modern-day Mark Twain, obsessed with interviewing General Motors chairman Roger Smith after auto-factory closings destroy the filmmaker's hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Ex-journalist Michael Moore demands answers when General Motors suddenly closes the doors of all its auto plants in the Flint, Michigan, the city where he grew up.
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From Michael Moore's Roger & Me. by David Ehrenstein and Bill Reed. Picked by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association as the Best Documentary of 1989, this mordantly funny piece of investigative journalism centers on the near-total economic collapse of filmmaker Michael Moore's home town of Flint, Michigan, in the 1980s--after General Motors ...
Dec 19, 2014 · Roger & Me justly made Michael Moore famous. It remains the definitive documentary study of post-industrial America, a both chilling and heartwarming portrait of what happens when the...
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Aug 19, 2003 · 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 ...
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Documentary chronicling the efforts of the world’s largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. Themes: Economics, Labor, Social Class. First, close eleven plants in the U.S., then open eleven in Mexico where you pay the workers 70¢ an hour.
