Professional gadfly Michael Moore's first film since the incendiary FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (2004) takes on the American health-care system and makes the enraging, bombastic case that it's sicker than any patient.
This being a Michael Moore film, the filmmaker is as enraging as the subject: His belligerent court-jester shtick wears thin fast and undermines the segments on universal health-care systems in Canada, the U.K., France and Cuba. Every roll of the eyes, every mock-incredulous question, every hyperbolic expression of disbelief that other countries offer their citizens, rich and poor, comprehensive access to doctors and medication without driving them to desp...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
123 mins