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The Big One
1997
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Rated PG-13
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Starring Michael Moore.
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Stumped
, 1998-2006
![[PHOTO]> Despite all appearances to the contrary, what with my near constant discourse on ethics and the affairs of the American government, I am not particularly involved in contemporary politics as a whole. And, as the focus of news out of Washington DC has increasingly been on young, big-haired, White House interns and exactly what they may, or may not, have done with our president, I have become even more disheartened. Therefore, my appreciation for Michael Moore's <I>The Big One</I>, which, despite some clever bantering and humorously juxtaposed scenes of conflicting information, is the most politically ambitious film released to video in the last year, was tempered. <P> Moore returns to the screen in <I>The Big One</I>, documenting his cross-country, 47 city, promotional book tour hawking copies of his Random House book, <U>Downsize This: Random Threats From an Unarmed American.</U> As Moore travels from stop to stop along the tour, he meets with new groups of people, generally those who have just been laid off from their jobs, and sympathizing with them, attempts to question the CEO's and corporate presidents as to why they are ruining so many different people's lives for the ability to make just a few more bucks. Naturally, the CEO's don't want to have to explain their capitalistic views on camera to Moore, so Moore is thusly escorted out of the corporate offices faster than Yahoo Serious' career went down the drain in the late '80's. <P> <IMG SRC=](/photos/bigone1.jpg)
