If Al Gore's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH was a restrained, carefully reasoned lecture about the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming, Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen's hugely effective documentary is a terrifying vision of exactly what's in store if we don't pay greater attention to what we're doing to the planet in our blind rush toward "progress." Perhaps this edge is exactly what the movement to reverse climate change needs: If a movie like this doesn’t work, nothing will.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, who was also a producer, the film opens with flashes of deforestation, squirming embryos, factory-farmed chickens, melting ice shelves a...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
91 mins