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Dec 19, 2014 · The man has become a punchline, a limousine liberal poorly aping a working man. But unlike Moore himself, his greatest film, Roger & Me, has only grown better with time. It turns 25 years old this ...
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Other articles where Roger & Me is discussed: Michael Moore: …Moore filmed his first documentary, Roger & Me (1989), which chronicles the effects of unemployment in Flint due to the closing of two General Motors (GM) factories and the company’s longer-term policy of downsizing. At the centre of the film were Moore’s “in-your-face” efforts to gain an audience with GM’s…
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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 closed its once-thriving auto plants, laying off ...
Roger Smith was a true genius. This is filmmaker Michael Moore describing the business strategy of General Motors’ then-chairman, Roger Smith. Roger and Me chronicles Michael Moore’s long quest to confront Smith with the human consequences of his business decisions on Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, where GM eliminated 30,000 jobs ...
Dec 20, 1989 · Roger & Me: Directed by Michael Moore. With Michael Moore, Roger B. Smith, Rhonda Britton, Fred Ross. 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.
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"Roger and Me" is the story of Flint, Michigan, an industrial town facing decline when 35,000 of the town's 150,000 residents lose their jobs. On a larger scale the film presents an allegorical view of corporate America, and a damning critique of a system which allows any corporation (in this case General Motors) to turn
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. With over 30,000 people out of ...
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