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  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Brave New Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Brave New Films
  • 1 h 38 m
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Summary Robert Greenwald's documentary WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop. (Brave New Films)

Directed By: Robert Greenwald

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Brave New Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • Brave New Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
7.5
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Summary Robert Greenwald's documentary WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop. (Brave New Films)

Directed By: Robert Greenwald

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Lee Scott

Self - President & CEO of Wal-Mart

Don Hunter

Self - H&H Hardware Owner

Jon Hunter

Self - Son of Don Hunter

Jeremy Hunter

Self - Son of Jon Hunter

Matt Hunter

Self - Son of Jon Hunter

Johnny Faenza

Self - H&H Hardware Employee

Frank Mormino

Self - Owner of Middlefield Tire

John Bruening

Self - Owner of Geauga Vision

Tom Glassburner

Self - H&H Hardware Employee

Weldon Nicholson

Self - Wal-Mart Store Manager Trainer

Al Norman

Self - Founder of Sprawl-Busters

Grace Thibodeaux

Self - Hearne, Texas Resident

Diane DeVoy

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

Cathy Nemchik

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

Stan Fortune

Self - Wal-Mart District Loss Prevention Manager

Jon Lehman

Self - Wal-Mart Store Manager

Phenix Montgomery

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

Josh Noble

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

Donna Payton

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

Alicia Sylvia

Self - Wal-Mart Employee

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
71
72% Positive
13 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
71
72% Positive
13 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review

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91
Greenwald floats the vital issue of whether Wal-Mart should be restrained by antimonopoly regulations, but his real question is cultural: Even with its rock-bottom prices, is Wal-Mart in the best interest of American consumers?
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
88
Important, awareness-building documentary.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
75
Compelling and frequently entertaining.
By Peter Hartlaub FULL REVIEW
70
An engrossing, muckraking documentary about the retail giant that's been called "the world's largest, richest and probably meanest corporation." But if you're expecting an angry diatribe, you're going to be disappointed.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
67
It's not a question of agreeing or disagreeing with this film's point of view to say that it isn't as often convincing as it is convinced.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
60
Lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
7.5
71% Positive
24 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
21% Negative
7 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 34 User Ratings
7.5
71% Positive
24 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
21% Negative
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Production Company Brave New Films
Release Date Nov 4, 2005
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline It will change the way you think, feel - and shop...
Website http://www.walmartmovie.com/
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