Diane DeVoy, Edith Arana, James Cromwell

Everyone has seen Wal-Mart's lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its...( read more  read more... ) own employees? What is it hiding? Filmmaker Robert Greenwald takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Robert Greenwald

Release Date: November 4, 2005

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DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005

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  • May 5, 2009
    It's excellent at getting it's point across. However, this is mostly hateful propaganda, that is simply the opposite of Wal-Mart's own lovey-dovey advertisements. It raises some excellent points, but seems to go off like some mad old man towards the end. Wal-Mart have such hate a...( read more)imed against them that in the segment on crime outside their stores it seems as though Wal-Mart are the ones committing the offenses. The film also doesn't have the balls to attack Wal-Mart customers. It shows at the very end how communities can oppose the construction of a store, but what about these communities where local stores die out? It's a lot easier to turn people against a huge company rather than themselves.
  • January 21, 2009
    This is one of those documentaries that will make you angry. It's a hard film to watch because it would appear that Walmart doesn't have an ethical bone in its slick, hypothetical corporate body. Counting the ways in which it exploits everyone and everything does get a little tir...( read more)esome, but it is nice to know that the filmmakers seem to have hope.
  • September 22, 2008
    Eye-opening film. I no longer shop at Wal-Mart.
  • November 18, 2007
    I never went to Wal-Mart before and this solidified my boycott.
  • November 14, 2007
    Statistically speaking, Wal-Mart is worse than cancer and I actually like Tony Danza and Jim Varney better than Wal-Mart, but this was a ridiculously over the top propaganda film. The High Cost of Low Price nitpicks every little thing about the company--and for as much as I loath...( read more)e said company I just don't think this documentary is entirely fair. (Like no one gets stabbed or kidnapped out of any other store's parking lot.) It's very intelligent as it bends facts and circumstance while it knows exactly who its audience is--right wing Christians. In its defense, I did miss the first 15 minutes but I got the jist within the first 2 minutes I caught.
  • October 23, 2009
    GREAT documentary about Wal-Mart AKA Cult-Mart
  • September 9, 2009
    Is this the catalyst for wall-e?
  • August 27, 2009
    i thought this movie was boring
  • June 30, 2009
    It goes to show how much Wal-Mart really cares about its people, nature and people over seas. And not to forget how they kill small towns.
  • June 28, 2009
    Wal-Mart's evil and that's well and good but the doc just isn't set up in any kind of interesting or organized fashion. It's the antithesis of Wal-Mart's press -- I found myself getting bored very often.

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November 18, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon. full review

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  • aprilneo
    July 29, 2007
    As a former Walmart employee, I can testify that this is all too true. Believe it all. Go to Walmart Blows for real stories. Facts are facts.
  • nickfromflc
    September 25, 2006
    Very interesting but poorly done.

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