Funny documentary, released in
1989, which features director
Michael Moore trying without
success to personally meet
General Motors head
Roger Smith to
confront him with the
widespread poverty visited on
Flint,
Michigan, after
GM closed its plants there. The
film captures some really
odd moments--a woman selling
rabbits as "
pets or meat" (and kills one onscreen for
supper); a
sheriff reluctantly
evicting people just before
Christmas; Moore catching
game show host Bob Eubanks telling
racist jokes; Flint's failed
automobile theme park; and Moore's attempts to locate Smith at
ritzy garden parties, the
GM offices, and a
meeting of the
stockholders.
Moore has been able to turn this movie's incredible
success (well, success for a
documentary, at least) into a
career as a
political and
corporate gadfly.