Capitalism: A Love Story

"Ask not what your CEO can do for you, but what you can do for your CEO"

2009 2h 8m EN

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Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

“Ask not what your CEO can do for you, but what you can do for your CEO”

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Cast

Michael Moore
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Elijah Cummings
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Marcy Kaptur
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Bernie Sanders
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Elizabeth Warren
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Thora Birch
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Baron Hill
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Wallace Shawn
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Credits

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Director: Michael Moore
Writers: Michael Moore
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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Earned back only 87% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jeff Gibbs. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Michael Moore and Elijah Cummings and Marcy Kaptur carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Ask not what your CEO can do for you, but what you can do for your CEO".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1232207 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Michael Moore directs. Jeff Gibbs scores. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Earned back only 87% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
2Released 17 years ago.
3Original score by Jeff Gibbs. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Michael Moore and Elijah Cummings and Marcy Kaptur carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Ask not what your CEO can do for you, but what you can do for your CEO".
6IMDB entry: tt1232207 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 18 themes, including "capitalist", "capitalism", "banking", "wall street".

The technical file

Original score: Jeff Gibbs
Runtime: 128 min · 2h 8m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $20,000,000
Box office: $17,436,509
Return: 87% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

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GenerationofSwine2023-01-12
★ 10/10
Pay attention boys and girls, this is one for the history books. Seriously, this is an important slice of current American history. Better than anything else this highlights a total 180 on labor for both the left and the right... and it's only 10 years old. Nike, yeah, they make a big deal out of how the company moved abroad and now operates sweat shops... that was a left wing issue 10 years ago. And today the left will attack anyone that criticizes Nike as "racist." But it goes beyond that. 10 years ago it was the left that thought outsourcing was bad, and that spoke out against major corporations that did it. Now it's the right that is speaking out against outsourcing... and, well, they are BOTH championing enormous corporations. In fact, the left would call any protection of domestic labor from outsourcing "nationalism" and "racist." At least that was something the right is, unfortunately, consistent on... but the left will all but nail you to the cross if you say anything about Disney, Nike, Google, Apple, and so on. And then there is the plight of Middle America, that was something that both sides could at least pay lip-service to, but in 2019... the argument on the left has turned that all of Middle America (save, Chicago and, maybe parts of Colorado) are absolute evil and full of people in white hoods. This stands as a shining example of how fast things change in only one short decade.

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