Michael Moore Documentary SICKO - DVD

Michael Moore's

Sicko

DVD

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DVD in excellent condition

Audio : English

Subtitles : -

Region 2 Europe Pal DVD (UK import)

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The scourge of the American right, award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore returns with a documentary focussing on the US health care system. Moore attempts to highlight the contradictions in a system that, despite costing more per person than any other in the world, ranks last among developed countries. As well as taking a swipe at the wholly for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Moore compares and contrasts health provision around the globe, including Canada, Britain and France.

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Michael Moores latest documentary may see him moving his sights away from the purely political arena, yet he loses none of his bite in the process. And with Sicko , a slanted, at-times devastating attack on the American health care system, hes made one of his best films.

The problem, of course, for a UK audience is that its a very American system that Moore is attacking in Sicko . Hes out to highlight the number of people with health insurance who are getting perfectly legitimate claims turned away, as the companies concerned get fat off the profits. But there is a British angle, as Moore presents a surprisingly idyllic take on Britains own health service, that does sit in the midst of the films flabby middle section.

Yet when Moore points Sicko at the very people the system is letting down, his skills very much come to the fore. He puts forward passionate, partisan arguments with an incendiary style that few working American documentary makes can come close to matching, and it makes Sicko compulsive viewing. Whether you agree with the mans politics or not, his films are provocative, very well made and hard not to admire. Sicko is no exception. -- Jon Foster

Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
Language : English
Director : Michael Moore
Media Format : PAL, Widescreen, Dolby, Colour
Run time : 2 hours and 3 minutes
Release date : 7 Jan. 2008
Studio : Studiocanal
Producers : Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara
Writers : Michael Moore
Number of discs : 1

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America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry expose. 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.

Credits Producer: Kathleen Glynn
Editorial reviews In a summer of dumb, shameless drivel, Moore delivers a movie of robust mind and heart. You’ll laugh till it hurts
Rolling Stone  (10/18/2007)

An affecting and entertaining dissection of the American health care industry, showing how it benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Variety  (10/18/2007)



SPECIAL FEATURES:


   Raising Money To Fight Cancer: H.R.676 (Sicko Goes To Washington)
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   General Electric In France
   Religious Freedom
   Father Mike
   Sicko Los Angeles Premiere

Sicko is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the insane, often cruel, and always profit-hungry U.S. health care system, told from the vantage point of everyday people faced with extraordinary and heartbreaking challenges in their quest for basic medical care. Michael Moore asks his fellow Americans "What is wrong with us?" Moore shows that U.S. health care ranks last among developed nations despite costing more per person than any other health system in the world. Moore seeks answers in Canada, Great Britain, and France, where all citizens receive free medical care. Finally, Moore gathers a group of 9/11 heroes rescue workers now suffering from debilitating illnesses, unable to receive help at home, and takes them to a most unexpected place where they receive the tender care unavailable in the richest nation on earth.