Film

Bowling for Columbine 2002

Directed by Michael Moore

  • Documentary, Drama
  • 120 min
  • R

Rotten Tomatoes95%Metacritic72

Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

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Contemporary, epic, overwhelming and plot-driven.

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  • intimateepic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • unpretentiousprestige

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