Bowling for Columbine
Written, Directed & Produced by Michael Moore

Bowling for Columbine is an alternately humourous and horrifying film about
the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the
violent soul of America.

Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence?
The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan
to video games. But are we that much different from many other countries?
What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and victim of such
enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. It is a
film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280
million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally
protected Uzi.

Bowling for Columbine was the first documentary film accepted into
competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 46 years. The Cannes jury
unanimously awarded it the 55th Anniversary Prize. From a look at the
Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning
NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm
with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by
another six-year-old, "Bowling for Columbine" is a journey through America,
and through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so
riddled with violence.

Showing at Rialto Cinemas in NZ now.

Comments? Questions? Email info@bowlingforcolumbine.com or go to
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