

Produced by
Kathleen Glynn & Jim Czarnecki
Producers
Charles Bishop & Michael Donovan
"Bowling for Columbine" is an alternately humourous and horrifying
film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union,
about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America
each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from
every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. But are
we that much different from many other countries? What sets us apart?
How have we become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts
of violence? 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.
"Bowling for Columbine" was the first documentary film accepted
into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 46 years. The Cannes
jury unanimously awarded it the 55th Anniversary Prize. 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 America, and through our past, hoping to discover why
our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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