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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date2002-10-09
Languageen
Runtime2h
Budget$4,000,000
Revenue$35,564,473
Production

Vif Babelsberger Filmproduktion, Alliance Atlantis, Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films, United Artists

7.5(1.7k)
•2002•2h

Bowling for Columbine

"Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?"

Overview

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. 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 the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

Writing & Screenplay
Bowling for Columbine (2002) | Cinelio