Capitalism: A Love Story

Name: Capitalism: A Love Story
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 23, 2009
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Michael Moore

2009

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Overture Films | Release Date: September 23, 2009 | R

Starring: Michael Moore

Summary: Capitalism: A Love Story explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as the biggest robbery in the history of this country--the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions. (Overture Films)

Director: Michael Moore

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 127 min

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Mike Scott

After watching the bailouts, the bank foreclosures and the Bernie Madoffs of the world dominate headlines, Michael Moore is mad as hell, and he's going to try to make you mad as hell, too. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

This lively, infuriating and occasionally moving film certainly leaves you thinking, and there isn't a dead spot in it. That's the mark of a real filmmaker, not just a muckraker. Read full review

Premiere Mark Salisbury

With the global economic meltdown affecting just about everybody, the film is pertinent, hugely entertaining, and, above all, timely. Read full review

Dana Stevens

There's something touching, even a little bit noble, about Moore's eternal willingness to serve as our nation's shame-free populist gadfly. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Redundant for a filmmaker whose work has always dealt with the dismaying consequences of this country’s profit motive. Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title. Read full review

Damon Wise

A barbed study of the American economy puts capitalism in the dock but somehow fails to convict. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Shouldn’t Moore run his yellow crime-scene tape around the White House instead of Wall Street? Anyway, President Obama said this month that in cases where the government has fully sold its TARP bank holdings, it has gotten back its money plus 17 percent. Damn those capitalist barons, breaking into our treasury and filling it with their filthy money. Read full review

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killdarren

Sep 29, 2009

Why is it always about the man and not the message. Wake up people, in America you have 15.1% of the population controlling 83.4% of the wealth. That is a disgrace. Keep killing yourselves for money, see where it gets you. Go Mike, You are the unsung hero of our generation. Capitalism will Why is it always about the man and not the message. Wake up people, in America you have 15.1% of the population controlling 83.4% of the wealth. That is a disgrace. Keep killing yourselves for money, see where it gets you. Go Mike, You are the unsung hero of our generation. Capitalism will be the end of us all, it must be destroyed.… Expand

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marku

Oct 4, 2009

Chicago Times asks why the title of this movie is never explained?, because it is obvious "America you have been screwed!", and you are not the only ones. Funny how they can`t print money for dying children or to home the homeless, as it will cause inflation, yet they go to town when the Chicago Times asks why the title of this movie is never explained?, because it is obvious "America you have been screwed!", and you are not the only ones. Funny how they can`t print money for dying children or to home the homeless, as it will cause inflation, yet they go to town when the banks are in trouble!, print it like there is no tomorrow, why ...to save thier own arse!. Haven`t seen this movie yet but I surely will, Michael Moore will go to town on this one!, and he won`t need to embellish the facts with the help of your average fruitcake to do it.… Expand

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Brian

Oct 19, 2009

Very impressive and engaging pastiche of images and personal testimonies. His interviewees, particularly the families who have lost everything, are the driving force of the narrative. I appreciated this film as the culmination of Moore's general argument about corporate victimization Very impressive and engaging pastiche of images and personal testimonies. His interviewees, particularly the families who have lost everything, are the driving force of the narrative. I appreciated this film as the culmination of Moore's general argument about corporate victimization which has underlain his previous entries. A tour-de-force of documentary filmaking, and a career-defining film.… Expand

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BillS

Sep 26, 2009

Pay no attention to the right-leaning wingnuts who gave the movie a 0. It's obvious they never even saw the film, they're just MM haters. That said, it's a typically imperfect MM hybrid - it's not a documentary, it's not a mockumentary, it's something in Pay no attention to the right-leaning wingnuts who gave the movie a 0. It's obvious they never even saw the film, they're just MM haters. That said, it's a typically imperfect MM hybrid - it's not a documentary, it's not a mockumentary, it's something in between. What it has to say about capitalism should be taken with a grain of salt, but it's still tells a lot of truth about a system that's run amok and nearly brought the country to ruin.… Expand

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Sep 25, 2009

Look, you can hate on Moore all you want for making what amounts to op-ed-umentaries. But he's not some America hating communist that needs to move to Cuba. He's a New Deal Democrat-- he believes in unions, mom and pop stores, workers rights, all that stuff. When he condemns Look, you can hate on Moore all you want for making what amounts to op-ed-umentaries. But he's not some America hating communist that needs to move to Cuba. He's a New Deal Democrat-- he believes in unions, mom and pop stores, workers rights, all that stuff. When he condemns 'capitalism,' he's condemning rampant corporatism; stuff like' Too Big To Fail,' and making a buck being more important than people's lives. I actually think we can pretty much all agree on that stuff-- Moore says Wall Street is a bunch of greedy bastards who stole our money. Nobody's really disputing that fact. So all you Glenn Beck-ites saying that Moore should move to Cuba, I say that you and Moore actually probably have a lot in common. You can disagree with his methods, or think he's pompous, but when he says that giant-ass corporations are the biggest threat to our democracy from within, everyone should really think about it. It's not that capitalism is bad, it's not-- rampant corporatism, however, is. Just my thoughts.… Expand

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JohnV

Oct 13, 2009

Would it be too capitalistic to ask for my money back? Moore comes off as a fake and a phony. Do as I say not as I do kinda guy. Movie wanders and makes little sense.

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syzygy

Sep 24, 2009

Mikey is a cheap propagandist whose worst deficiency all these years has been dishonesty. He never so much cared for people's plight as needing it to push his gross beliefs. Finally, with his latest putrid opus, he is far less scared because he feels comfortable with our current Mikey is a cheap propagandist whose worst deficiency all these years has been dishonesty. He never so much cared for people's plight as needing it to push his gross beliefs. Finally, with his latest putrid opus, he is far less scared because he feels comfortable with our current financial crisis in ways that did not show in prior films. He reveals more of his core beliefs rather than simply dancing on the periphery of the crises. He is a true Marxist, a person who doesn't think capitalism suffers from momentary convulsions but is a cancer on all societies.… Expand

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