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Duration:
145 min | Argentina:150 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Hong Kong:165 min (Hong Kong International Film Festival)
Genres:
Documentary | History
IMDB rate:
8.2
Director:
Mark Achbar
Awards:
11 wins & 1 nomination
Details
Country: Canada
Release Date: 2004-06-04
Filming Locations: Celebration, Florida, USA
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $28,671 (USA) (6 June 2004)
Gross: $1,879,301 (USA) (14 November 2004)
Cast
Actor
Character
Mikela Jay
Herself - Narrator (voice) (as Mikela J. Mikael)
Rob Beckwermert
Actor - Dramatizations
Christopher Gora
Actor - Dramatizations
Nina Jones
Actor - Dramatizations
Richard Kopycinski
Actor - Dramatizations
Karen Lam
Actor - Dramatizations
Sean Lang
Actor - Dramatizations
Bert Phillips
Actor - Dramatizations
Diana Wilson
Actor - Dramatizations
Jane Akre
Herself - Investigative Reporter
Ray Anderson
Himself - CEO, Interface
Joe Badaracco
Himself - Professor of Business Ethics, Harvard Business School
Maude Barlow
Herself - Chairperson, Council of Canadians
Chris Barrett
Himself - Corporate Sponsored University Students
Marc Barry
Himself - Competitive Intelligence Professional
Robert Benson
Himself - Professor of Law, UCLA
Elaine Bernard
Herself - Executive Director of Trade Union Program, Harvard
Edwin Black
Himself - Author, IBM and the Holocaust
Carlton Brown
Himself - Commodities Trader
Smedley Darlington Butler
Himself - USMC: Exposes Anti-FDR Plot (archive footage)
Noam Chomsky
Himself - Institute Professor, MIT
Shiv Chopra
Himself - Health Canada Scientist (archive footage) (as Dr. Shiv Chopra)
Ed Collins
Himself - Counselor
Thomas D'Aquino
Himself - President, Business Council on National Issues
Víctor Hugo Daza
Himself - Slain Student: Bolivia (archive footage)
Solomon DeMontigny
Himself - Baker
Peter Drucker
Himself - Founder, Drucker School of Management
Samuel Epstein
Himself - Professor Emeritus of Environmental Medicine, University of Illinois
Amy Field
Herself - Social Worker
Andrea Finger
Herself - Spokesperson, Celebration Florida
Nicole Barchilon Frank
Herself - Office Manager
Milton Friedman
Himself - Nobel Prize Winning Economist
Susan Gaydos
Herself - Environmental Technician
Sam Gibara
Himself - Chairman and Former CEO, Goodyear Tire
Kathie Lee Gifford
Herself (archive footage)
Richard Grossman
Himself - Co-Founder, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Bruce Hamilton
Himself - Business Owner
Robert Hare
Himself - Consultant to the FBI on Psychopaths (as Dr. Robert Hare)
Lucy Hughes
Herself - Vice President, Initiative Media
Ira Jackson
Himself - Director of Center for Business and Government, Harvard University
Charles Kernaghan
Himself - Director, National Labor Committee
Robert Keyes
Himself - President and CEO, Canadian Council for Internation Business
Suk Choo Kim
Himself - Business Owner
Mark Kingwell
Himself - Philosopher
Naomi Klein
Herself - Author, No Logo
Tom Kline
Himself - Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc.
Phil Knight
Himself - Founder & CEO, Nike (archive footage)
Chris Komisarjevsky
Himself - CEO, Burson Marsteller
James Lafferty
Himself - National Lawyers Guild
Susan E. Linn
Herself - Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
Luke McCabe
Himself - Corporate Sponsored University Students
Robert Monks
Himself - Corporate Governance Advisor
Mark Moody-Stuart
Himself - Former Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell (as Sir Mark Moody-Stuart)
Michael Moore
Himself - Filmmaker & Author
Oscar Olivera
Himself - Coalition in Defense of Water and Life
Pierre Pettigrew
Himself - Minister of Trade, Canada
Jonathan Ressler
Himself - CEO, Big Fat Inc.
Jeremy Rifkin
Himself - President, Foundation on Economic Trends
Jim Robinson
Himself - Senior Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Himself (archive footage) (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Vandana Shiva
Herself - Physicist & Ecologist (as Dr. Vandana Shiva)
Clay Timon
Himself - CEO, Landor and Associates
Michael Walker
Himself - Executive Director, The Fraser Institute
Robert Weissman
Himself - Editor, Multinational Monitor
Steve Wilson
Himself - Investigative Reporter
Irving Wladawski-Berger
Himself - Vice President, IBM Technology and Strategy Group
Don Xui Xziang
Himself - Burmese Refugee
Mary Zepernick
Herself - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Howard Zinn
Himself - Author, A People's History of the United States
Kofi Annan
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean Chrétien
Himself, with George W. Bush (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill
Himself - Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Himself - During Salt March (archive footage) (uncredited)
Frank Gifford
Himself - Behind Kathie Lee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
King George VI
Himself - with Queen Elizabeth (archive footage) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King
Himself - During March on Washington (archive footage) (uncredited)
V.I. Lenin
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nelson Mandela
Himself - After Release, with Winnie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winnie Mandela
Herself, with Nelson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Mansbridge
Himself - CBC (archive sound) (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Knowlton Nash
Himself - CBC (archive sound) (uncredited)
Pope John XXIII
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin
Himself - Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ken Starr
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martha Stewart
Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dave Thomas
Himself - Wendy's Commercial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman
Himself - Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eugene Whelan
Himself - Senator: Chairs Posilac Inquiry (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Bento Box, a graphics company, produced animations to take place behind the interviewees but they ended up distracting audience attention and so were dropped.
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One of the "subplots" that didn't make the final cut was about a children's festival where the Canadian singer/ children's entertainer Raffi was due to give a concert. Upon entering the festival, parents were greeted by a mocked-up KIA car showroom that would inevitably get the children excited as they were allowed to play in the cars, whilst being given KIA merchandise. The presence of this corporate employment of children pester power to be directed at their parents so disgusted Raffi that he pulled out of the concert. One of the reasons this segment was not included was that the film-makers were denied the opportunity to film the KIA showroom, and the handheld footage that they shot secretly wasn't good enough to be used in the final film.
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Sam Gibara, the Chairman of Goodyear, would only agree to be interviewed in the Waldorf Astoria. As the film-makers were very keen to have him on film, they rented a room at the Waldorf. Unfortunately the Waldorf only rents its rooms for the night, so 3 crew members took the opportunity to overnight in one of the world's most famous hotels.
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Quotes
Jane Akre: Monsanto sent the second letter, and this was more strongly worded. And it said there will be dire consequences for Fox News if the story airs in Florida. And this time they freaked. They were afraid of being sued and they were also afraid of losing advertising dollars. And all of the stations owned by Rupert Murdoch. And he owned more television stations than any other group in America. That's 22 television stations. That's a lot of advertising dollars. For Round-Up, Aspartame, Nutra Sweet and other products.
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Jeremy Rifkin: There are many tools for bringing back community. But the importance is not the tools. I mean, there's litigation, there's legislation, there's direct action, there's education, boycotts, social investment. There's many, many ways to address issues of corporate power. But in the final analysis, what's really important is the vision. You have to have a better story. Is this interesting? Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Ray Anderson: [Speech to Civic and Business Leaders, North Carolina State U] Do I know you well enough to call you fellow plunderers? There is not an industrial company on earth, not an institution of any kind, not mine, not yours, not anyone's that is sustainable. I stand convicted by me, myself alone, not by anyone else, as a plunderer of the earth, but not by our civilisation's definition. By our civilisation's definition, I'm a captain of industry. In the eyes of many a kind of modern day hero. But really, really, the first industrial revolution is flawed, it is not working. It is unsustainable. It is the mistake and we must move on to another and better industrial revolution and get it right this time.
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Marc Barry: We're predators. It about competition, it's about market share, it's about being aggressive, it's about shareholder value. What is your stock at today? If you're a CEO, do you think your shareholders really care whether you're Billy Buttercup or not? Do you think that they really would prefer you to be a nice guy? Over having money in their pocket? I don't think so. I think people want money. That's the bottom line. Michael Moore: The fact that most of these companies white rich men, means that they are out of touch with what the majority of the world is. Because the majority of this planet are not a bunch of rich white guys. They are people of other colours, they are the majority. Women are the majority, the poor, and working poor make up the majority of this planet. So the decisions they make come from not the reality that exists throughout the world.
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