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Details DVD Release Date: Nov 06, 2007; Genre: Documentary; Distributors: Lions Gate Films and The Weinstein Company
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Director Michael Moore's latest documentary is a funny, devastating screed against the U.S. healthcare system. Though it can lapse into grandstanding — extolling the virtues of, say, Cuba probably won't silence Moore's conservative critics — Sicko keeps its focus exactly where it should: on story after infuriating story of middle-class Americans who've been jilted by the medical-insurance industry. EXTRAS Over 80 minutes of cut scenes include a hilarious trip to Norway; Moore thought the portrait of that progressive country and its endless social services was ''so scary I couldn't put it in this film.'' A-
Posted Oct 29, 2007
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