Capitalism: A Love Story

Academy Award® winning filmmaker Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, Roger & Me) examines the effect of corporate dominance on Americans in Overture Films’ riveting documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, available on DVD and Blu-ray™ Tuesday, March 9th from Anchor Bay Entertainment (Pre-Book February 4, 2010). Written, directed, and produced by Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story takes on the system that, in Moore’s words, “allows, encourages and, most importantly, guarantees this corruption.”

Capitalism: A Love Story DVD features more than 80 minutes of Featurettes, Extended and Deleted Scenes, all written and directed by Michael Moore.

Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman calls Capitalism: A Love Story “Funny and Powerful.” Huffington Post’s Dan Siegel says, “Moore has made the most important and urgent political film of our time.” Added USA Today’s Claudia Puig, “No matter what side of the political fence you're on or what you think of Moore as an activist and provocateur, a film that explores the economic meltdown and its historical roots is something most of us can get our heads around.”
On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan. From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Michael Moore once again takes filmgoers into uncharted territory. With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings.

Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal...and 14,000 jobs being lost every day. Capitalism: A Love Story is both a culmination of Moore's previous works and a look into what a more hopeful future could look like. It is Michael Moore's ultimate quest to answer the question he's posed throughout his illustrious filmmaking career: Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?

The Capitalism: A Love Story standard definition DVD features over 80 minutes of featurettes and deleted scenes including “The Man Who Might Save Flint; U.S. Congressman Elijah Cummings on Why We Should Consider Discarding Capitalism”; Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times Reporter Chris Hedges on “Capitalism: the Killer”; Father Dick Preston on “Why the Rich Man Can’t Buy His Way Into Heaven”; “What if We had Listened to Jimmy Carter?”; Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) on “People Who Grow Food Without Capitalism”; “You Talkin’ to Me? - Taxi Drivers in Wisconsin Go All Crazy for Democracy”; “The Ideas Behind a Worker-Owned Business”; “Here's an Idea: The People’s Bank of North Dakota” and “Miami Max Has a House for You.”