Roger & Me

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Awards

American Cinema Editors Awards 1990 - Won - Best Edited Documentary

Berlin International Film Festival 1990 - Won - Peace Film Award Honorable Mention

International Documentary Association Awards 1990 - Won - IDA Award

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1990 -Won - Best Documentary

American Cinema Editors Awards 1990 - Won - Best Edited Documentary

Berlin International Film Festival 1990 - Won - Peace Film Award Honorable Mention

International Documentary Association Awards 1990 - Won - IDA Award

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1990 -Won - Best Documentary

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1989 - Won - Best Documentary

National Board of Review Awards 1989 - Won - Best Documentary

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1989 - Won - Best Documentary

NYFCC Awards 1989 - Won - Best Documentary

Political Film Society Awards 1991 - Won - Expose Award

Toronto International Film Festival 1989 - Won - People's Choice Award

Vancouver International Film Festival 1989 - Won - Most Popular Film

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Roger & Me

Director:
Michael Moore
R, 91 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

Michael Moore's wickedly iconoclastic documentary was inspired by the decline and fall of Flint, Michigan. Once the site of a thriving General Motors plant, Flint went quickly to seed when GM decided to close down and move out. As Moore pokes around what has been described by one magazine as "the worst place to live in America", he finds out how the local populace is coping with GM's betrayal of the American Dream.

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Details

Runtime:
91 min.

Genres:
Comedy
Documentary

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Tagline

• The story of a rebel and his mike.

 

Memorable Quotes

Michael Moore: Well, the million tourists never came to Flint. The Hyatt went bankrupt and was put up for sale, Waterstreet Pavillion saw most of its stores go out of business, and only six months after opening, Autoworld closed due to a lack of visitors. I guess it was like expecting a million people a year to go to New Jersey to Chemicalworld, or a million people going to Valdez, Alaska for Exxonworld. Some people just don't like to celebrate human tragedy while on vacation.

[last lines] Michael Moore: Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.

Michael Moore: Although most people in Flint were now too poor to afford a room at the Hyatt, the hotel allowed the public on opening day to ride the city's only escalator.

 

 

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