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Editorial Review:
Roger and Me is a loose, smart-alecky documentary directed and narrated by Michael Moore, an everyman host with a devastating wit and a working-class pose. When his hometown is devastated by the plant closure of an American corporate giant (making record profits, one should note), the hell-raising political commentator with a prankster streak tries to turn his camera on General Motors Chairman Roger B. Smith, the elusive Roger of the title, and the film is loosely structured around Moore's odyssey to track down the corporate giant for an interview.

While Moore ambushes his corporate subjects like a blue-collar Geraldo Rivera, a guerrilla interviewer who treasures his comic rebuffs as much as his interviews, his portraits of the colorful characters he meets along the way can be patronizing. The famous come off as absurdly out of touch (Anita Bryant appears for some can-do cheerleading, and hometown celebrity Bob Eubanks tells some boorish jokes), and the disenfranchised poor (notably an unemployed woman who sells rabbit meat to make ends meet) all too often appear as buffoons or hicks. But behind his loose play with the facts and snarky attitude is a devastating look at the victims of downsizing in the midst of the 1980s economic boom. This portrait of Reagan's America and the tarnish on the American dream comes down to a simple question: what is corporate America's responsibility to the country's citizens? That's a question no one at GM wants to answer. --Sean Axmaker

Roger & Me [Region 2] Reviews:
Roger and Me
2009-11-07 - This was the only Michael Moore film I hadn't seen. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Clear, Prescient -
2009-10-25 - This is Michael Moore's classic film made in the late 1980's. It is a documentary about the closing of the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan. It is both scathingly funny and poignant as it reveals an unattached elite and their lofty view of the problems and issues of the middle class and poor. They look uncaring,unable to understand and appreciate what is happening to the United States and the common good. Greed and status are the goals of those fortunate enough to run companies for their own power and wealth. Roger Smith is the frosting on the cake. His imperious comments and inaccessibility infuriate as you see what is going on with the 33,000 people on permanent lay-off. American jobs are going to other countries, a start of unfortunate events continuing today.

It is sad as it is the movie showing GM as the "canary in the coal mine" for other collapses including Enron, the American Auto industry as a whole, and the financial/banking collapse. It shows clearly how the American family is unraveling with the middle class disappearing. Laid off workers, if lucky enough to get a job, are paid less, and have to settle for part-time jobs, often without health insurance and other benefits. It was

It is a classic, bittersweet and smart. Worth seeing again and again.

Heart Breaking
2009-09-21 - We shouldn't have bailed out GM. It's no different than the health insurance companies: profit first, people last. These companies are immoral, heartless.

What is the message
2009-09-09 - I'll be honest I am thoroughly entertained by Michael Moores movies, he does have a gift that makes them addictive, I can't stand the guy but I do enjoy watching his movies. I have to say this movie has no point. The movie is about Michale Moore trying to get the CEO of GM to somewhow get involved the lives of former employees and do some type of favor for them, WHY? A corporation is not a charity, its a business, if corporations main stakeholders in all considerations were the employees than they would not exist and no one would benefit from their existence. Considiering GM built Flint and Michael Moore's whole upbringing is a result of that company's employment of his father and grandfather, I can't understand what he expects this business he derides as evil to do. Just because you have a job today does not mean your entitled to a job for life, I know this is totally against Union way of thinking, but thank god for America the majority of us are well aware of this. Showing the human side of job loss is very sad, but isn't this America and a business has the right where and how to run their business to become profitable. I loved the fact that because of the UAW's entitlement contracts GM is broke today, well at least they got a Michael Moore sympathizer running the show now.

This movie's message is dumb, it's basically that businesses owe more to employees than the paycheck and benefits they already receive. Moore just wants to get rich through controversy and he has done that.

Roger & Me
2009-07-07 - This is a good video explaining the history behind General Motors and how they treated their employees. What "goes around comes around" as they say. Now it's up to the American people (since we have majority ownership now of GM) to say we want them to use the latest technology in batteries and electric cars to provide a clean-fuel alternative to the polluting vehicles on the market now.