The Complete Premiere Season of The Awful Truth [VHS]
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Primary Contributor: Michael MooreEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 285 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Docurama
Studio: Docurama
VHS Movie Reviews of The Complete Premiere Season of The Awful Truth [VHS]
Movie Review: No closed captioning
Summary: 1 Stars
Michael Moore is a favorite of mine. Too bad Docurama couldn't be bothered with closed captioning the series, hence the ZERO vote.
Without closed-captioning, the DVD is useless to hearing impaired people.
Shame on you Docurama for ignoring years of requests! You just don't care! :(
Movie Review: 'The Awful Truth" - List of all episode segments
Summary: 4 Stars
There's no middle ground when it comes to liberal activist Michael Moore-- you either love or hate him. Moore's 24-part half-hour humor/investigative journalism series "The Awful Truth" aired on the BRAVO network from April 11, 1999 to August 9, 2000.
PROGRAM CONTENTS for "The Awful Truth, Season #1":
EPISODE #1 - (4/11/99)--
Segments: "A Cheaper Way to Conduct a Witch Hunt" and "Funeral at an HMO." (guests: James Carville and 5 Congressmen)
EPISODE #2 - (4/18/99)--
Segments: "Beat the Rich" and "The Sodomobile." (guest: Trent Lott)
EPISODE #3 - (4/25/99)--
Segments: "Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse" and "The Voice-Box Choir." (guest: Paul Wellstone)
EPISODE #4 - (5/2/99)--
Segments: "Sal, The Bill Collector" and "Duck and Cover."
EPISODE #5 - (5/9/99)--
Segments: "The Awful Truth Man of the Year," "TV Pundits?" and "150 Feet from NBC." (guest: Conan O'Brien)
EPISODE #6 - (5/16/99)--
Segments: "Work Care!," "LucyCam" and "Air-Drop TVs on Afghanistan." (guest: Sally Struthers)
EPISODE #7 - (5/23/99)--
Segments: "William Sebastian Cohen," LucyCam #2" and "Manpower."
EPISODE #8 - (5/30/99)--
Segments: "Montana Shacks," "Joe Camel Gets a Job" and LucyCam #3."
EPISODE #9 - (6/6/99)--
Segments: "Hail Turdonia," "Teen Sniper School" and Hitler Makes a Withdrawal."
EPISODE #10- (6/13/99)--
Segments: "Crackers Goes to Buckeye Eggs," "The Michael Moore Playset," "American Apartheid" and "Bill Gates' Housewarming." (guest: Willie Nelson)
EPISODE #11- (6/20/99)--
Segments: "Weapon Inspectors," "The Make a Wish Foundation" and "We Find Hillary a Date." (guest: Rosanne Barr)
EPISODE #12- (6/27/99)--
Segments: "NAFTA Mike," "Strikebreakers" and "Mergers."
Movie Review: Satire for the bold and the brave
Summary: 4 Stars
I had never heard of this series before and, being a fan of Michael Moore, I decided to buy this earlier this year.
If I could rate each disc, I'd give the first disc 5 stars and the second 4 stars.
There are many memorable and bizarre moments in the series, and some of the skits are so simple and effective that I kept saying, "why didn't I think of that?". As you'd expect, the first season is overflowing with the populist, blunt, political and social satire that has made Michael Moore famous.
If it weren't for some of the distasteful skits, such as "Teen Sniper School" (not funny), I'd give this five stars, as it's otherwise a low-budget, but very straightforward and eye-opening series. I recommend this set to fans of Michael Moore or people looking for some good and funny expos?s on corporate America.
Movie Review: Embarrassing
Summary: 2 Stars
I had to stop watching this after episode 8 because I was overwhelmed with sympathetic embarrassment for Mr. Moore (since he obviously doesn't have the sense to be embarrassed for himself.) I knew he was a reactionary dribbler before I watched the tape but I thought it might be entertaining anyway. Too bad it was just sad. I only liked the first two episodes because he actually attempted to help people (the guy who needed an organ transplant, and the guy who was layed off,) but otherwise it was uninteresting and unfunny. His early episodes attempt to deal with issues which are mildy interesting (tobacco industry, homophobia... same old same old, but still noble) but in later episodes it becomes more about just lampooning the "bad people" (aka rich people) and not actually doing anything proactive. This would be fine if he were actually funny, but he's not, and his comedy bits sound more and more like leftist diatribe as the show goes on... And no, I'm not a republican, but I know garbage when I see it (GIGO.)Movie Review: A look into the underbelly of America
Summary: 4 Stars
I caught a few episodes of The Awful Truth on the tele and must say it is a pretty mixed bag. I liked the episode on guns, where Moore went to the NRA with his new idea for a mascot, a walking talking gun. Needless to say they wanted no part of it, but it was much more to the point than was "Eddie the Eagle," or whatever the NRA calls its stuffed bird which tries to warn tots of the dangers of guns while at the same time it fights any and all legislation on the hill to combat the proliferation of handguns. But, at other times Moore sounds pretty sanctimonious, such as when he is wheeling through New York in his rented Taxi refusing to pick up white folks. In other words it is the Michael Moore many have grown to love, not afraid to take on the big boys, and at the same time pointing out the many inherent weaknesses in our society.
Summary of The Complete Premiere Season of The Awful Truth [VHS]
From the acclaimed filmmaker who brought you Roger & Me comes the most daring documentary show to hit the American Public since Moore's TV Nation: THE AWFUL TRUTHMichael Moore, hailed by the New York Times as a modern-day Mark Twain, is at it again with the show that was shut down by the mayor of NYC, got Moore sued by a wealthy industrialist, and landed his Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken in Disney World's very own jail.
Shot in his signature "guerilla video" style, each half hour episode is filled with scathingly funny observations that bridge comedy and controversy and places Moore in the middle of today's hot topics.
Can you handle the truth? If you're Mickey Mouse, George Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger & Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo ("Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network"). This set contains all the episodes from the show's premiere season. It is perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The series is much more than Moore "going in someplace to bug somebody." There is method to Moore's madness. His outrage is palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a customer's life-or-death pancreas transplant by staging the man's mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise Mickey Mouse about Disney's alleged unfair labor practices. Moore also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir of cigarette-ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box. The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives, for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his "Gay Team" cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, "We'll never be back on NBC now." You go, Mike! --Donald Liebenson
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