Additional information for Fahrenheit 9/11, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 25, 2004. The film is being distributed by Lionsgate and has not yet been rated. Fahrenheit 9/11 has a total running time of 122 minutes.
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12
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12
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14
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12
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15
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12
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11
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122min
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Fahrenheit 911
USA
May 17, 2004
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June 22, 2004
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June 23, 2004
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June 23, 2004
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June 25, 2004
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June 25, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 07, 2004
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July 08, 2004
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July 08, 2004
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July 09, 2004
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July 14, 2004
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July 14, 2004
United Arab Emirates
July 15, 2004
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July 15, 2004
Australia
July 15, 2004
Latvia
July 15, 2004
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July 16, 2004
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July 16, 2004
Uruguay
July 20, 2004
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July 20, 2004
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July 22, 2004
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July 22, 2004
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July 22, 2004
South Korea
July 23, 2004
Colombia
July 23, 2004
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July 23, 2004
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July 29, 2004
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July 29, 2004
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July 29, 2004
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July 29, 2004
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July 30, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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August 06, 2004
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August 12, 2004
Switzerland
August 14, 2004
Japan
August 18, 2004
Egypt
August 26, 2004
Hungary
August 27, 2004
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August 27, 2004
Norway
August 27, 2004
Sweden
September 02, 2004
Albania
September 02, 2004
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September 09, 2004
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September 09, 2004
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September 10, 2004
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September 10, 2004
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September 11, 2004
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September 11, 2004
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September 21, 2004
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September 23, 2004
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September 23, 2004
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September 23, 2004
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September 24, 2004
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September 29, 2004
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October 14, 2004
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October 20, 2004
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October 21, 2004
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October 22, 2004
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October 28, 2004
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December 13, 2004
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The temperature where freedom burns!
This July the fireworks will fly
Controversy...What Controversy?
Your country. Your future. Your movie.
This summer Michael Moore turns up the heat.
Michael Moore begins the movie begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the presidential election of 2000 by prematurely declaring George W. Bush the winner. It then suggests the handling of the voting controversy in Florida constituted election fraud.The film then segues into the September 11, 2001 attacks, with the screen going black and the film relying solely on sounds to illustrate the chaos on that day. When the film resumes, it continues with scenes of the bystanders, survivors, and falling debris of the World Trade Center. Moore notes that President Bush was informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center on his way to an elementary school. Bush is then shown sitting in a Florida classroom with kids. When told that a second plane has hit the World Trade Center and that the nation is "under attack" Bush wary but calmly continues reading 'The Pet Goat' to the kids, and Moore notes that he continued reading for nearly seven minutes before leaving the school.The film then discusses the causes and aftermath of the September 11 attacks, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Moore then discusses the complex relationships between the U.S. government, the Bush family, the bin Laden family, the Saudi Arabian government, and the Taliban, which span over three decades. Moore alleges that the United States Government evacuated 24 members of the bin Laden family on a secret flight shortly after the attacks, without subjecting them to any form of interrogation. At the time, all other domestic and international civilian air traffic within the United States was grounded.Moore moves on to examine George W. Bush's Air National Guard service record. Moore contends that Bush's dry-hole oil well attempts were partially funded by the Saudis and by the bin Laden family through the intermediary of James R. Bath. Moore alleges that these conflicts of interest suggest that the Bush administration is not working for the best interests of Americans. The movie continues by suggesting ulterior motives for the War in Afghanistan, including a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean.Moore alleges that the Bush administration induced a climate of fear among the American population through the mass media after the 9/11 attacks to gain widespread support for his administration and the war in Afghanistan. Moore then describes purported anti-terror efforts, including government infiltration of pacifist groups and other events, and the signing of the USA PATRIOT Act, which vastly expands government powers. After finding out that members of Congress do not read most of the bills that they vote on, including the USA PATRIOT Act, Moore drives through Washington D.C. in an ice cream truck using the external speaker to read the PATRIOT Act to them.The documentary then turns to the subject of the Iraq War, comparing the lives of the Iraqis before and after the invasion. The citizens of Iraq are shown to be living relatively happy lives prior to the country's invasion by the U.S. military in 2003. The film also takes pains to demonstrate war cheerleading in the U.S. media and general bias of journalists, with quotes from news organizations and embedded journalists. The film then shows Bush's moment of "Mission Accomplished" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln. The film alternates between media reports of increased casualties in Iraq and Bush's comment to "Bring 'em on", referring to the Iraqi insurgency.The film then shifts its focus to Moore's hometown, Flint, Michigan. The economically hard-hit town's low-income neighborhoods were the prime target of military recruiters. A recruiter named Sgt. Raymond Plouhar is introduced (he was later killed in Iraq), as he and another marine recruiter track people down in a parking lot of a mall. The film introduces Lila Lipscomb, a woman presented as the proud mother of a U.S. serviceman. She expresses her strong sense of patriotism and support for the men and women in uniform.Moore suggests that, because the war was based on a lie, atrocities will occur, and shows footage depicting U.S. abuse of prisoners.Later in the film, Lipscomb reappears with her family after hearing of the death of her son, Sgt. Michael Pederson, who was killed on April 2, 2003, in Karbala. Anguished and tearful, she begins to question the purpose of the war. Because Moore was tired of seeing people like Lila Lipscomb suffer, and after discovering that only one member of Congress has a child serving in Iraq, he distributes armed services enrollment information to various members of Congress and suggests that they enlist their children.Tying together several themes and points, Moore compliments those serving in the U.S. military. He claims that the lower class of America are always the first to join the army and defend the nation, so that the people better off do not have to. He states that those valuable troops should not be sent to risk their lives unless it is absolutely necessary. The film ends with a clip of George W. Bush stumbling through his infamous "Fool me once" quote. The credits roll while Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" plays.Moore dedicated the film to his friend who was killed in the World Trade Center attacks and to those servicemen and women from Flint, Michigan that have been killed in Iraq. The film is also dedicated to "countless thousands" of civilian victims of war as a result of United States military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michael Moore
Director(s)
Michael Moore
Writer(s)
Jim Czarnecki
producer
Rita Dagher
associate producer
Carl Deal
archival producer
Carl Deal
field producer
Joanne Doroshow
associate producer
Kurt Engfehr
co-producer
Jeff Gibbs
co-producer
Kathleen Glynn
producer
Monica Hampton
line producer
Nicky Lazar
field producer
Tia Lessin
supervising producer
Jay Martel
consulting producer
Agnès Mentre
executive producer (as Agnes Mentre)
Anne Moore
associate producer
Michael Moore
producer
Rachelle Murway
online producer
Meghan O'Hara
field producer
Bob Weinstein
executive producer
Harvey Weinstein
executive producer
Producer(s)
Jeff Gibbs
Composer(s)
Himself (archive footage)
Ben Affleck
Himself (archive footage)
Stevie Wonder
Himself (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Himself - Former Secretary of State (archive footage)
James Baker III
Himself - Congressman (archive footage)
Richard Gephardt
Himself - Senator (archive footage)
Tom Daschle
Himself - Author of "Too Close to Call" (archive footage)
Jeffrey Toobin
Himself - U.S. Vice President and Senate President (archive footage)
Al Gore
Herself - National Security Advisor (archive footage)
Condoleezza Rice
Himself (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld
Himself (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
Himself - Former U.S. President (archive footage)
George Bush
Himself (archive footage)
Ricky Martin
Himself - Senator in Subcommittee on Aviation (archive footage)
Byron Dorgan
Himself (archive footage)
Osama bin Laden
Himself - Interviewee
Craig Unger
Himself - On "Larry King Live" (archive footage)
Larry King
Himself - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to USA (archive footage) (as Prince Bandar bin Sultan)
Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
Himself - Interviewee as Retired FBI Agent
Jack Cloonan
Himself (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Himself - Interviewee as Investigative Reporter and Author (as James Moore)
James C. Moore
Himself - James Baker's Law Partner (archive footage)
Robert Jordan
Himself - Inteviewee as Author of "The Halliburton Agenda"
Dan Briody
Himself (archive footage)
John Major
Herself - White House Correspondent (voice) (archive sound)
Helen Thomas
Herself - Interviewee as Mother of 9-11 Victim
Carol Ashley
Himself - Chairman of 9-11 Commission (archive footage) (as Thomas H. Kean)
Thomas Kean
Herself - Interviewee as Widow of 9-11 Victim
Rosemary Dillard
Himself (archive footage)
Richard Clarke
Himself (archive footage)
Paul Wolfowitz
Himself (archive footage)
Dick Cheney
Himself (archive footage)
Tony Blair
Herself - Interviewee as Unocal Project Consultant
Martha Brill Olcott
Himself (archive footage)
Kenneth Lay
Himself - Taliban Minister (archive footage)
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashimi
Himself (archive footage)
Hamid Karzai
Himself (archive footage)
Zalmay Khalilzad
Himself - Interviewee as Psychiatrist (as Congressman Jim McDermott)
Jim McDermott
Himself - CEO of Executive Chute Corporation (archive footage)
John Rivers
Himself (archive footage)
Dave Bondy
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
producer
Rita Dagher
associate producer
Carl Deal
archival producer
Carl Deal
field producer
Joanne Doroshow
associate producer
Kurt Engfehr
co-producer
Jeff Gibbs
co-producer
Kathleen Glynn
producer
Monica Hampton
line producer
Nicky Lazar
field producer
Tia Lessin
supervising producer
Jay Martel
consulting producer
Agnès Mentre
executive producer (as Agnes Mentre)
Anne Moore
associate producer
Michael Moore
producer
Rachelle Murway
online producer
Meghan O'Hara
field producer
Bob Weinstein
executive producer
Harvey Weinstein
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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