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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • The Weinstein Company
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • The Weinstein Company
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from more than 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lonely guy willing to face danger head-on and take it down, action hero style. In Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker takes on a franchise even more lethal than Mc...

Directed By: Morgan Spurlock

Written By: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • The Weinstein Company
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • The Weinstein Company
  • 1 h 30 m

Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from more than 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lonely guy willing to face danger head-on and take it down, action hero style. In Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker takes on a franchise even more lethal than Mc...

Directed By: Morgan Spurlock

Written By: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
29% Positive
8 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
21% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
29% Positive
8 Reviews
50% Mixed
14 Reviews
21% Negative
6 Reviews

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The film is, like "Super Size Me," extremely entertaining and, again, Spurlock shows that if it's one thing he knows how to do well, it's the first 10 minutes of a documentary.
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63
Spurlock's intermittently entertaining travelogue ultimately reveals that people in disparate countries of different religions and wildly divergent ideologies are more alike than not.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
60
With his goofy interview technique and easy laugh, Spurlock has a way of putting his subjects at ease even as he tests the audience's patience.
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50
In casbahs and desert villages, in kibbutzim and around the campfire, Spurlock has a way of getting people to open up, to use their real voices and express their real opinions, the likes of which never make it onto network news. That's his gift, and when he uses it, "Where in the World zzzzz-zzzz" opens up into a miraculous document.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
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This movie is a case of arthouse bait and switch. Its true subject is one decent Yank's desire to believe that Everyman and Everywoman - Everywhere! - are as warm and amiable as your average American Joe: him, Morgan Spurlock, the regular guy as fearless globetrotter.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
33
Everywhere he goes he asks if anybody knows bin Laden's whereabouts – as if anybody is going to tell him! Why should we accompany him on his self-aggrandizing trip?
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
25
Morgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
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Production Company The Weinstein Company, Wild Bunch, Warrior Poets, Where in the World
Release Date Apr 18, 2008
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Melbourne International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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