Bowling for Columbine

2002 | 120 minutes | 7.5 ★ (1522)

Bowling for Columbine
  • Overview

    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. 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 the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

  • Release Date

    09 October 2002

  • DirectingMichael Moore
  • Budget

    $4,000,000.00

  • Revenue

    $35,564,473.00

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