Albert Maysles, Andrew Breitbart, Carr Hagerman

The tables are turned on revolutionary filmmaker Michael Moore in this documentary by Michael Wilson, who believes that America isn't as polarized and troubled as Moore makes out to be in his movies. ...( read more  read more... )Taking a page from the legend himself, Wilson tries to track down Moore for an interview, employing techniques the cineaste has employed himself. Does Wilson manage to accomplish his goal and reach the elusive Moore?

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R, 93 min.

Directed by: Michael Wilson

Release Date: September 12, 2004

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DVD Release Date: May 31, 2005

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  • July 24, 2008
    I love and trust Michael Moore so much not even a documentary against him can't convince me.
  • November 8, 2006
    Now I hate MM even more. Wilson does a great job of putting this doc together. I thought it was going to be cheap and flimsy, but it's not. It's something that actually tells the truth and opens our eyes to Moore's UNBELIEVABLE bullshit in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenhe...( read more)it 9/11."

    The film is honest and open. The director even rips himself when he realizes that he actually stoops to Moore's level a couple of times.

    Interviews with many of the people from "Columbine" and "Fahrenhet" who feel they were misrepresented and lied to. Great documentary. The REAL truth.
  • October 22, 2009
    Not Interested in seeing looks pretty weak.
  • October 20, 2009

    A preacher preaches missionary while he does it doggy. So sad.
    -Jason Cole

    WTF?!! Excuse me? have I been seeing and hearing since I can think America tries to "Americanise" everything they come across. Look the poor Canadians. The good Neighbours are Har...( read more)rassed.
    Well I dont say that Michael Moore is right in everfyn he says and shows. The thing is, he shows the nacked part of "our" or if you prefer "your" Nation. No one likes that neither did Castro. So please gimme a break Assholes!
    What he does is what you preach. He takes the Advantage of The right to freedom of speech and while some of you Assholes prejudice everyone who looks very closely at the dark side, Moore diggs the shit out. I respect Michael Moore.
    It is easy to be prejudice, looking at the truth is pain in the ass isnt? ;)

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  • January 13, 2009
    This movie sounds pretty ignorant, but I'll watch it before I rip it apart.
  • November 13, 2008
    A great documentary. It's not really out to bash Moore personally, but rather his tactics. It doesn't take a political stance, but rather examines some of the lives that Moore took advantage of to make his propaganda films. It's not a right wing movie; it's a movie for those wh...( read more)o are fed up with that obnoxious filmmaker.
  • October 20, 2008
    quit fun to watch, but don't know what to think of it...
  • September 24, 2008
    As a professor of American history a few years ago, I realised that the biggest obstacle to my teaching was not that students knew very little about the subject, but that what little they knew they got from Michael Moore, and was consequently wrong, simplistic and very confused. ...( read more)Rather than merely teach them, I had to waste hours untangling a jumble of prejudices, factoids and outright lies that all came from one single source: Michael Moore's movies.

    It is obvious to me that to undo the damage done by this brazen, bullying and hypocritical manipulator would require at least twice as much time as all of his films, TV series and public interviews put together. So how does Michael Wilson's film fare within the limits of its two hours?

    To be blunt, I felt that the film was about half as effective as it should have been, but whatever it does manage to accomplish needed so badly to be done that it is definitely worth watching and supporting.

    I felt Wilson lost precious screen time by being a little too "Michael Moorish" about his subject, i.e. by being infected himself by Moore's informal and anarchistic approach to documentary film-making. I personally would have edited out the humour (like the search for Michael
    Moore in New York) and the profanities (which would have left all of Penn Jillette's interventions in the dustbin) and focused instead on what I found to be the film's greatest asset: Wilson's interviews of the various people who were duped by Moore in one or the
    other of his movies.

    Now that was brilliant. What you realise is that all of these people - bank employees, Congressmen, U.S. soldiers, etc. - were literally conned by Moore: they were
    tricked into telling the story he wanted to tell, through clever manipulation and editing, and were effectively silenced by a voice that pretended to speak on their behalf while in fact trampling on whatever they actually had to say. The deconstruction of this process is fascinating.

    As for Wilson's self-criticism, I initially found it a waste of precious time (the film is the kind of documentary that documents its own making in a few self-reflective scenes), but it pays off in the end when Wilson explains how easy it is to fall into the trap of manipulating people to achieve your ends, so that truthfulness in documentary film-making requires true personal asceticism.

    Even if you are lucky enough never to have seen a Michael Moore movie (I have seen two of them), or feel you are clever enough to have seen through his distorsions and lies, you will definitely learn something from "Michael Moore Hates America", not only about how this demagogue has fooled millions, but about how any documentarist may be tempted to do so.
  • September 15, 2008
    the truth this director can't handle this neo con tool
  • May 26, 2008
    Although biast and some of Michel Wilson's arguements are weak, it's still an interesting film.

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November 2, 2004
Roger Ebert, Ebert & Roeper

It's kind of a sweet movie in it's own way it's not really angry about anything. full review

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