Roger & Me

Director: Michael Moore

1989 / 91min / DCP

Before Moore became an activist documentary institution he was a one-man-band playing the outraged David to the Goliath of General Motors, the company whose factory closures in his hometown of Flint left thousands out of work, setting Moore on a fierce, sometimes hilarious filmmaking vendetta, trying to call corporate suits to accountability. “The peculiar genius of Roger & Me is not that it’s a funny film or an angry film, or even a film with a point to make—although it is all three of those things. It connects because it’s a revenge comedy, a film in which the stinkers get their comeuppance at last.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times