Sicko PG-13
This might hurt a little.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 6, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Lisa's Skus
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Moore | |
Directed by | Michael Moore | |
Produced by | Kathleen Glynn, Michael Moore & Meghan O'Hara | |
Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein |
Entertainment Reviews:
There's plenty of grandstanding, most of it very funny. And in this instance, all that sizzle is selling the steak.
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NPR.org
While Moore's sins aren't nearly as terrible or significant as those of the political system to which he stands opposed, his unabashed tendency to talk down to his audience is symptomatic of our culture of mediocrity.
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Stop Smiling
This is the essential ill that Sicko addresses, in an eruption that's the most unruly and uncategorizable part of the whole movie, and the most unmistakably heartfelt. You want the truth? Moore can handle the truth.
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Film Comment Magazine
SICKS is outspoken in its dismay that a country as rich and powerful as the United States should force so many of its citizens to gamble on the odds of sustained good health. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
A devastating exposure of America's iniquitous healthcare system, coolly marshalled and amusingly detailed by Moore.
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Independent (UK)
4 stars out of 5 -- SICKO is a shocker....It's Moore's strong affection for his homeland that fuels these howls of outrage.
Total Film
[Moore] has never before made a film that stated his bedrock ideological principles so clearly and accessibly.
New York Times
Product Description:
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.
Of course, SICKO isn't a PBS documentary, it's a Michael Moore movie, and his fingerprints are all over it. Moore visits countries that have universal health care--spectacularly so when he takes several World Trade Center workers to Guantanamo Bay (and then to Cuba) to receive health care that they were denied in the United States--and presents a compelling argument for adopting a similar system in the States. Moore's ultimate purpose here is to compel Americans to care for one another, and it's a simple request that shockingly must be made via a major motion picture, making SICKO essential viewing.
Of course, SICKO isn't a PBS documentary, it's a Michael Moore movie, and his fingerprints are all over it. Moore visits countries that have universal health care--spectacularly so when he takes several World Trade Center workers to Guantanamo Bay (and then to Cuba) to receive health care that they were denied in the United States--and presents a compelling argument for adopting a similar system in the States. Moore's ultimate purpose here is to compel Americans to care for one another, and it's a simple request that shockingly must be made via a major motion picture, making SICKO essential viewing.
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