Capitalism: A Love Story

R 7.4
2009 2 hr 8 min Documentary

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).

  • Cast:
    Michael Moore , Elijah Cummings , Marcy Kaptur , Bernie Sanders , Elizabeth Warren , Thora Birch , Baron Hill

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Reviews

Evengyny
2009/10/02

Thanks for the memories!

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Unlimitedia
2009/10/03

Sick Product of a Sick System

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Exoticalot
2009/10/04

People are voting emotionally.

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Mathilde the Guild
2009/10/05

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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sujaywalkingaway
2009/10/06

It is just too bad to see the whole title is driven by the idea that fear was the ideal engine for the wealthy to steal .Well now the director is using the same to insight a revolution .Please add some analysis to the claims ...

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swillsqueal
2009/10/07

Saw most of CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY tonight via SBS. Moore makes a case against capitalism and then tells his audience that if 'evil' is just removed, democracy and 50s working class standard of living in Flint, Michigan can be restored in America herself....with the help of local Catholic priests and bishops. A sometimes amusing flick, ultimately though another unsatisfying exercise in radical liberalism. The sentimental cosmopolitan republican Gore Vidal once said that Harry Truman was the President most responsible for setting up the 'National Security State'. Michael Moore seems to think it was Reagan. Anyway, the longed for democracy has apparently been achieved amongst WWII's losers: Japan, Germany and Italy....(sigh) more progressive nationalism than you can shake a stick at, Moore's CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. Capitalists and landlords made up the ruling classes of the USA from the get-go...along with the slave owners. There were no good old days of democracy--that story is 'mythistory'. In fact, democracy and capitalism are incompatible and only accepted as being necessarily connected by the majority because so many believe that the system can be run 'fairly' and with 'Justice', beliefs Michael Moore encourages.

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Kim Ipunkt
2009/10/08

Well, the beginning was quite good, I liked the different kinds of Capitalism-critics , especially when different people where shown, who told from their personal experience when capitalism hit their life's and destroyed their futures. When people told that banks profits from deaths of employes, when shown the immorality of finance system, by stealing from those, who don't have anything, or cheating on government and whole society. Yes, that was really good done, congrats Mr. Moore. But then it became ridiculous - maybe some find it ironic or even funny when Moore enters an armored car and try's to get the back the money from banks, by just asking with a nice $- signed bag in his hands. I don't. It took all the seriousness the move made it worth looking. Finally I was upset of the Utopian view which he made that all may be end up well, by showing some rebellious Workers - No Mr. Moore - thats not enough. Finance system won't collapse because some thousands go on strike - it takes much more : Organization, studies in Marxism, teaching young's , and and and. So he simple didn't get in the essence of capitalism-critics: All in all and populistic show up how capitalism f**** society. But still worths a watch.

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cmahoney9-120-805838
2009/10/09

I'll have to give this a 10 out of 10...for the delusional.Michael Moore masquerades as a man of the people - a guy who fights the oppressive fat cats of a capitalist society. Really, what does it matter if you're not subject to the rules you want set out for the less fortunate? Moore's made millions making people believe he isn't a filmmaker as well as a millionaire.Moore's a capitalist because he's taken advantage of the freedom it provides him to make money off of bashing capitalism and other subjects that rise up into the public consciousness.If you think for a minute that Michael Moore wants to saddle up next to you and listen to your problems - think again. The man is looking down on you from his mansion and laughing all the way to the bank.

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