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Sicko, 2007

Starring: Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi

Directed by: Michael Moore

Written by: Michael Moore

Language: English, French, Spanish, Russian

Country: USA

Runtime: 123 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:8.2

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The mood of Sicko is cynical, disturbing, and clever. The plot centers around idealism, fighting the system, and politics. It is a documentary movie. In approach, Sicko is realistic. The setting is the USA. It happens in contemporary times. Sicko is known for being controversial, an award winner, and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Sicko

America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé. Sicko tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's health-care crisis. After providing some historical background on how our nation's medical care system became so ravaged and unfair, Moore interviews a series of individuals and families who have had their lives all but destroyed by the denial of care in the service of profit. While there are two sides to the gun-control debate and even a legitimate discourse for how to best wage the war on terror, it's simply impossible to justify how a baby girl can wind up dead because her mother's health insurance wasn't accepted at a nearby hospital. Moore smartly allows this and other stories to be told with little or no interference, conjuring strong feelings of empathy, rage, and deep sadness.

Of course, Sicko isn't a PBS documentary, it's a Michael Moore movie, and his fingerprints are all over it. Moore visits countries that have universal health care--spectacularly so when he takes several World Trade Center workers to Guantanamo Bay (and then to Cuba) to receive health care that they were denied in the United States--and presents a compelling argument for adopting a similar system in the States. Moore's ultimate purpose here is to compel Americans to care for one another, and it's a simple request that shockingly must be made via a major motion picture, making Sicko essential viewing.

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Language:	English, French, Spanish, Russian
Country:	USA
Release date:	22 June 2007
Runtime:	123 min

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Michael Moore

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Tucker Albrizzi

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San Francisco Chronicle

Sicko will scare people, and it probably should. Full Review

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by: Mick LaSalle

Philadelphia Inquirer

It is not a polemic but a plea. Full Review

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by: Carrie Rickey

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I was completely into this movie (not documentary), until they go to Cuba to brag about the healthcare there. The moment those lies were told, I had to question the validity of every other case shown. To say that Cubans have access to better... Read and rate it

26.April.2011
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by: peps323
peps323 rated this movie0/10

What is this. I couldn't watch past the part extolling the Canadian healthcare system from fear of having my breakfast fly up my esophagus. Having many Canadian relatives (who are incidentally liberal), I have heard stories of the Canadian... Read and rate it

31.January.2010
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by: Mark
Mark rated this movie2/10Bad

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