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Roger and Me [1989] [DVD] [1990]
enlarge	Director: Michael Moore Actors: Michael Moore, James Blanchard, James Bond, Pat Boone, Rhonda Britton Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy New: £2.09 as of 22/11/2009 03:52 GMT details You Save: £11.90 (85%) New (13) Used (7) Collectible (1) from £2.08 Seller: findprice Rating: 8 reviews Sales Rank: 9815 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 91 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900276450 ASIN: B00013KCLS Theatrical Release Date: December 20, 1989 Release Date: January 1, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Made in 1989, IRoger and Me/I is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore. Here for the first time, the man who won unexpected Oscar glory with IBowling for Columbine/I exposed audiences to his devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the bigwig for an interview. p While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colourful characters he meets along the way can be patronising. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no-one at GM wants to answer. --ISean Axmaker/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next » Another Winner by Michael Moore December 27, 2003 23 out of 25 found this review helpful Of course this is Moore's first movie, and although it was made on a very low budget, I thought it was just as great and touching as Bowling for Columbine. It was fascinating to follow Moore on his quest to get an interview with Roger, the untouchable and heroic (at least to Wall Street) CEO of General Motors, who was responsible for closing the GM plant in Flint, Michigan and 6 others across the United States (so that, for example, other factories could be opened in Mexico that would exploit the cheap labor forces). Moore not only shows us how the blue collar workers were affected by the lay-offs, but he has also managed to get the opinions of some members of the upper class of Flint. So, on the one side, you've got all these people that are getting thrown out of their homes because they don't have a job and can't pay the rent, and on the other side of town the rich are playing golf and throwing parties, condemning the unemployed for being lazy or not innovative enough. With some examples, Moore demonstrates that this kind of thinking is indeed wrong to a large extent; many people of Flint did try to find other ways of making a living, but certainly the means and possibilities available in a city that had just had the rug pulled out from under its feet are extemely limited. The film culminates with a Christmas speech wherein the speaker expresses how important it is for American citizens to be charitable and show good will to their fellow men, while yet another unemployed mother and children get kicked out of their house in Flint. An awesome documentary!!! tragically brilliant June 16, 2004 evilsuperstar (Manchester UK) 8 out of 11 found this review helpful This is a fantastic documentary and even better than 'Bowling For Columbine'. The situation which Flint GM workers faced after the closure of their plant was awful but they gained little support with the public figures interviewed for this film coming up with such daft advice as "keep your fingers crossed!" As people were being evicted from their dilapidated homes there were wealthy ladies on the golf course saying that they felt some ex GM workers didn't actually want to work, and the local Taco Bell owner fired all his former GM staff saying that they couldn't keep up with the pace and that he felt making tacos was harder than working on an automobile production line. pThroughout the film there is an air of ridiculousness with many events seeming more akin to an episode of The Simpsons rather than a real documentary. Whilst the town is floundering the local authorities build a massive hotel and shopping complex which subsequently goes bust and then there's the parade which marches past the lines of boarded up shops led by a beauty queen whose words to the unemployed masses of Flint is basically 'wish me luck in the Miss America finals!'. And just when you think things can't get any worse the tourism department comes up with the tragically funny 'Autoworld'; a theme park created to celebrate the town's depleted industry which features a recreation of how the town used to look and a puppet autoworker singing cheerfully to the robot which has taken over his job.p'Roger Me' is a tremendous film which is both amusing and heartbreakingly sad. It shows how the people who worked at the GM factory at Flint were not only let down by a big corporation but also by those in their community who should have been there to support them. One of the most moving films ever May 5, 2004 Mr. K. Donnellon 5 out of 8 found this review helpful Not many films can change the way you view things - but this one will. From the woman who slaughters rabbits for meat, to whole familes with young childen getting evicted on Xmas eve, to the end credits which say "This movie cannot be shown in Flint ........ because all the cinemas are closed down" this is one movie that should make you angry. Thank god for people like Michael Moore. I urge you to buy this DVD and show it to as many people as possible..... or urge them to buy it, now! Better than Bowling April 25, 2004 1 out of 3 found this review helpful I thought bowling for columbine good, but found this better, if that isthe word, more disturbing.brIt follows Mike in the days when he was less a celebrity, more just alocal mini celeb. Anyway, he is trying to get an interview with GM CEO,the Roger of the title, about the plant closures in michigan.brHe has little luck in his quest, which he says in the video commentary hereally didn't think would happen. He thought Roger would have to.brThere are scenes in it that are shocking, like a black guy getting shotand a bunny getting killed and skinned. The latter elicited a backlash,the former no complaints at all. Well, he says, we're all used to seeingblack guys get shot.brThere are also scenes peppered throughout the film of people gettingthrown out of their homes, but the scenes on xmas eve almost made mecry.brIt's a powerful film from a guy who really believes in what he is talkingabout. I went to see him on his book tour in lpool, and he seems togenuinely believe in what he is talking about, and what he is fightingfor. I'm looking forward to farenheit 9/11 now! Pure Moore July 30, 2004 Mr J P Keegans 14 out of 17 found this review helpful There is no disputing Michael Moore has recently become a massive franchise in his own right despite - we hope - him still opposing the concept of such a thing. pIn the UK Moore's recent films are less enlightening than I imagine them to be in the States but they still prove amusing. Fahrenheit 9/11 is nothing different to what we have been seeing every day on the BBC and the wacky gun nut expose that was Bowling for Columbine, despite being and excellent piece of film making, doesn't affect us, it is just those crrrraaazzyyy Americans shooting each other again.pRoger and Me is different, it is Moore's virgin outing, even before the excellent TV Nation and Awful Truth TV Series (well worth importing on region 1 from amazon.com as I did). It is well before the Moore hype of late and he is indisputably talking from the heart at all times.pYou see a town - Flint (Moore's home town); home of General Motors absolutely ravaged be plant closures and the resulting social consequences. I looks like the sort of images you saw in post communism Russia after the Iron Curtain fell! Virtually 100% unemployment (apart from the Bailiff you see throwing people from their shanty-town-like homes). People skinning pet rabbits for meat, children's beds being thrown onto the street and poor people being paid to be "statues" at rich people's parties! (seriously).pThe image presented in the film is a far cry from the American dream, and it is genuinely shocking from the outside because, this time, I really didn't know this sort of this happened in America. pEssential for any Moore fan, brilliant for anyone who wants to look at the true social structure of small town America. Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next »

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