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Corporation, The
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, and Milton Friedman
This feature documentary analyzes the very nature of the corporate institution, its impacts on our planet, and what people are doing in response. (Zeitgeist Films)
| GENRE(S): | Documentary |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Joel Bakan (also book The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power)
Harold Crooks |
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jennifer Abbott
Mark Achbar |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 5, 2005 Theatrical: June 4, 2004 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 145 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Canada |
Audience Award, World Cinema (Documentary), 2004 Sundance Film Festival
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The average user rating for this movie is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Rudy S gave it a10:
Those who condemn it as some form of propaganda or completely partial fail to realize that this film attempts to give you one side of the story. The movie makes convincing arguments as to why the corporate agenda may not be sustainable. Criticizing the movie for not giving a pro-corporation side is condemning it for something it isn't meant to be. It's a critique of the corporate agenda and should be something people on all sides of the political spectrum should see. Even if you disagree with their positions view it at least to broaden your own view and understand the anti-corporate side of the argument while people who agree with this movie should examine the pro-corporate side.
Mike B. gave it a4:
About as impartial as Triumph of the Will, this mashup of lefty talking points will no doubt thrill the hearts of the choir to which it preaches, but it leaves the rest of us bored silly by its two-plus hours of unrelenting Chicken Little-ism. The politics are hopelessly naive--does anyone to the right of Noam Chomsky really think that the solution to our problems is just to turn the economy over to the government? There may be valid points tucked away in all the verbiage, but the treatment is so unrelentingly one-sided that you end up distrusting everything the movie puts forth. A couple of the incidents discussed would have been interesting if both sides got a fair hearing, but then, that wasn't the point, was it?
Kevin gave it a9:
Forget your standard-issue horror flicks, this film is truly the most frightening piece of cinema I've ever subjected myself to. The Corporation puts the fear of the Invisible Hand into the viewer, doing for capitalism what Jaws did for beaches.
Mark gave it a10:
Another must see! Open your eyes folks and be engrossed, scared and perplexed with this powerful film.
Dor J. gave it a10:
Excellent film. Thought the comparison to psycopathic traits very interesting. Film quite balanced. The book is very worth reading. Lots of sources, very detailed.
Mathew gave it a4:
As slickly made propaganda this film succeeds admirably. Those inclined toward an anti-corporate bias may well cheer and rally to the cause, barking out their "right-on" with each successively checked box of indictment. But, for those who hope to find an incisive thoughtful balanced piece of investigative journalism–one that might indeed convert those who are not so critical of 'the American way of doing business'–this isn't the film! Too slick. Too manipulative. Why, it's just like a corporate sales pitch.
Kevin C. gave it a9:
It amuses me that just after Ebert calls it too long, the very next reviewer says it's too short. As for me? I found it just right. I'm not a big fan of either Moore or Chomsky, but that doesn't mean they don't have good things to say here. Moore even gets - gasp - a little introspective and self-aware near the end. And beyond the story of corporations, there are so many smaller stories - Interface's, for example - that are so engrossing as to keep the movie moving along nicely. Well worth the time invested.

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