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From accled filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes
THE AWFUL TRUTH, the most daring documentary show to hit the
American public since Moores own TV Nation. Now, for the first
time, this Emmy nominated series is available in one complete DVD
set.
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Can you handle the truth? If you're Mickey Mouse, George
Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate
no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their
customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael
Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home
address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger
& Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his
Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this
even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo
("Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network"). This set
contains all the episodes from the show's premiere season. It is
perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The
series is much more than Moore "going in someplace to bug
somebody." There is method to Moore's madness. His outrage is
palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a
customer's life-or-death pancreas trans by staging the man's
mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of
Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt
looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other
season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky
Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise
Mickey Mouse about Disney's alleged unfair labor practices. Moore
also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir
of -ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box.
The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives,
for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his
"Gay Team" cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, "We'll never be
back on NBC now." You go, Mike!
In the sopre season, Moore rails against politics as usual
and exposes what he calls your "basic, everyday, run of the mill
evil corporations." The Awful Truth was anything but comfort
television, as witness the episode "Compassionate Conservative
Night," in which "Team Dow" and "Team Nasdaq" engage in such
contests as "Dunk the Homeless" and "Pie the Poor." In another
segment, Moore launches an orange day-glow wallet exchange
program after a spate of shootings in which mistook
African American victims' wallets for firearms. Moore makes hay
with the 2000 presidential election. In one audacious segment, he
offers his support to any candidate who will jump into the Awful
Truth's portable mosh pit. George W. Bush's response, "Go find
real work," made its way into Fahrenheit 9/11 (
/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JNEI/%24%7B0%7D ). Only Alan Keyes is
game, incurring attacks by the other candidates during a
televised debate. In this series' version of a Very Special
Episode, Moore presents a short film he directed, "The Choice,"
in which Moore runs a Ficus against an unsed candidate
for the New Jersey House of Representatives. Throughout the
season, Moore s the that will pollinate in his two
controversial cross-over theatrical documentaries. Anticipating
ing for Columbine ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008DDVV/%24%7B0%7D
), one segment takes at the NRA with the introduction of a
new mascot, Pistol Pete, a costumed weapon, who is summarily
tossed out of a Las Ve show, NRA headquarters, and our
nation's capitol. Moore also turns up the temperature on
then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in a segment that pits the man
who would be president against his brother Jeb to see which of
their respective states, Texas or Florida, will prevail in the
number of executions. For a brief and shining moment, the
revolution was televised. At 30 minutes an episode, The Awful
Truth remains swift (or Swiftian) satire. For fans, this set will
complete the Moore manifesto, and give more ammunition to his
critics. --Donald Liebenson