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America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé. SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on how our nation's medical care system became so ravaged and unfair, Moore interviews a series of individuals and families who have had their lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even a legitimate discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it's simply impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her mother's health insurance wasn't accepted at a nearby hospital. Moore smartly allows this and other stories to be told with little or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and deep sadness. (official distributor synopsis)
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Michael Moore
USA
Best movies:
Edtv (1999)
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016) (theatrical recording)
Richard Nixon
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007) - a.f.
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
All the President's Men (1976) - a.f.
George W. Bush
USA
Best movies:
Curveball (2020) - a.f.
Live Free or Die Hard (2007) - a.f.
The Big Short (2015) - a.f.
Bill Clinton
USA
Best movies:
Contact (1997) - a.f.
Richard Jewell (2019) - a.f.
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) - a.f.
Hillary Clinton
USA
Best movies:
The Concert for New York City (2001) (concert)
Snowden (2016) - a.f.
The Dictator (2012)
Tony Benn
UK