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WHY IT SHOULDN'T HAVE WORKED Michael Moore's election-year screed condemning the president was sure to infuriate potential viewers. Disney certainly thought so, refusing to let Miramax release it.
WHY IT DID Forced to distribute independently, the Weinsteins harnessed that divisiveness, giving blue-staters a rallying point and providing a convenient antipode to that year's The Passion of the Christ. Fahrenheit earned $119 million and blew open the documentary record book.
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