Canadian Bacon (1995)

6.3	Listal rating
5.7	IMDB rating

Comedy (8), Satire (4), Canada (3), (3), Political (3), 1990s (2), Conspiracy (2), {comedy 20} (1), Mounted Police Officer (1), 90s (1), Political Satire (1), War (1), Littering (1), 1995 (1), Motorcycle Cop (1), Cold War (1), Ice Hockey (1), Independent Film (1), Director Cameo (1), Aboot (1)

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The US economy is in a rut, and so is the president's approval rating. What we need is a good war, but the Russians aren't interested. Hey -- how about that big polite country to the north? Niagara Fall Sheriff Bud B. Boomer takes this all a bit too seriously, though.

Directed by

Michael Moore

Starring (View all) :

John Candy

Sheriff Bud Boomer

Alan Alda

President of the United States

Honey

Stu Smiley

General Dick Panzer

Roy Boy

Kabral

R. J. Hacker

Niagara Mountie

Charles Jackal

Written by (View all) :

Michael Moore

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Michael Moore's foray into fiction

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 7 0:06

I remember seeing this movie when I was a teenager, pre George W. Bush and September 11. Back when Micheal Moore was some guy who made a documentary about how pissed off he was with what was happening to his home town and his quest to speak to the president of the company that he felt abandoned them. In that context, I remember thinking that Canadian Bacon was a decent comedy. Made me chuckle at least, and I enjoyed it's absurd humor at times. Now however, post Sept 11, post shock and awe, in the midst of terrorist fever, I watched this movie in a different light. If you watch this movie, you can see indicators of all of Moore's current themes in his documentaries. The idea of staging a war to boost opinion polls and get people to forget about the US's debt and sagging econom...Read more

Rating : 8/10

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