Filmmaker and social critic Michael Moore takes aim at America's love of deadly firearms and hits a much wider target: the culture of fear he feels keeps gun owners on edge and their weapons locked and loaded. The title is a wry reference to the report that teenage shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went bowling shortly before they entered Columbine High School and, in the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history, systematically murdered 15 people. Columbine has become a rallying point for gun control advocates around the country, but in the media's rush to lay blame, Moore wonders impishly why bowling wasn't cited as a pernicious influence on our nation's youth...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
119 mins