Sicko
(DVD)
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.
GENRES - documentary
Film Info
RATING - PG-13 (MPAA)
YEAR - 2007
LANGUAGE - English
Producer
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FESTIVALS
Awards
- CFCA Award (Best Documentary)
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (Chicago, United States) - Critics Choice Award (Best Documentary)
2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (Los Angeles, United States) - Documentary Screenplay Award
2008 Writers Guild Awards (United States) - Eddie (Best Edited Documentary (Nominated))
2008 American Cinema Editors (United States) - Image award (Best Documentary (Theatrical and Television) - (Nominated))
2007 NAACP Image Awards (Los Angeles, United States) - Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award (Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures (Nominated))
2008 PGA Golden Laurel Awards (United States)