An Inconvenient Truth

"By far the most terrifying film you will ever see."

2006 1h 40m EN

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★6.9TMDB · 1,007🍅93%Rotten Tomatoes●75Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 86,870

Documentary

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A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

“By far the most terrifying film you will ever see.”

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Cast

Al Gore
Self
Billy West
Various (voice)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Writers: Davis Guggenheim, Al Gore
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $46M — a 46.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "An Inconvenient Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Davis Guggenheim, shot by Davis Guggenheim. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Dan Swietlik shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Al Gore and Billy West and Ronald Reagan carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "By far the most terrifying film you will ever see.".

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The take

Davis Guggenheim directs. Davis Guggenheim behind the camera. Dan Swietlik cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $46M — a 46.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
3Released 20 years ago.
4Part of the "An Inconvenient Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Davis Guggenheim, shot by Davis Guggenheim. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Dan Swietlik shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Al Gore and Billy West and Ronald Reagan carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "By far the most terrifying film you will ever see.".
9IMDB entry: tt0497116 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 22 themes, including "politics", "self-destruction", "truth", "climate".
11Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Davis Guggenheim
Editing: Dan Swietlik
Costume design: Marina Ray
Sound: Skip Lievsay
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,000,000
Box office: $46,243,000
Return: 4624% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 75/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 86,870 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Won 2 Oscars. 34 wins & 11 nominations total

Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary Film
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary
Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.

Part of

An Inconvenient Collection

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American concert/documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate people about global warming. The film features a slide show that, by Gore's own estimate, he has presented over 1,000 times to audiences worldwide. A sequel to the film, titled An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, was released on July 28, 2017.

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Dark Jedi2017-08-25
★ 1/10
An Awful Lie would be a better title. The BS spewed out by Al Gore has been debunked numerous of times. His campaign was a "I lost the campaign for presidency so now I have to find some way of getting people to notice me". News flash: You lost the presidency because your politics sucks and so does you green preaching!
wlharman2020-05-09
★ 10/10
This documentary about Gore and his presentation are as relevant now as when this was shot. We continue to pump CO2 into our atmosphere even as a majority of Americans have come around on the facts of global warming. Gore takes the optimistic position in "An Inconvenient Truth," but today we see that it is not "political will" that holds us back but the will of a few powerful, monied interests. In America science must bow to money, even when the future of our wellbeing is on the line. I think the average billionaire would rather be rich than healthy, rather make money than have a gorgeous Earth to live on. The second lesson, ten years later, is that elections matter. George W. Bush and Donald Trump, the great presidential mistakes of the 21st Century, have dropped a ball that Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have caught handily. Imagine where we would be with consistent, pro-environmental leadership for the last 20 years. "An Inconvenient Truth" isn't just a lesson in climate change. It shows the importance of our election in American later this year.