Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) on Netflix
R20042h 2mComedyDocumentaryDrama
The account argues that Fox News Channel tilted the 2000 election for George W. Bush. His administration then used the September 11 attacks to press for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Plot summary
The account argues that friends and allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel called the 2000 election for him early, and that the dispute in Florida amounted to fraud. On his way to a Florida elementary school on September 11, 2001, Bush learns that a first plane has hit the World Trade Center, and he sits with a classroom of children while they finish their reading. From there the argument turns to how the attacks became grounds for war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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- Tom Daschleas Himself (archive footage)
- Richard Gephardtas Himself (archive footage)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Disney executives did not know Miramax had agreed to finance the film until they saw a posting on the Drudge Report; Michael Eisner, the CEO of Disney at that time, called Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and ordered him to drop it, and Disney sent two letters demanding Miramax do so.
- The film screened in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Egypt but was immediately banned in Kuwait, where Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour of the Kuwaiti Information Ministry said, "We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations"; the Saudi ruling elite answered with an advertising campaign spanning nineteen U.S. cities.
- Nine months after Fahrenheit 9/11 received the Palme d'Or, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice won Worst Actor, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards because of their mishandling of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War; Britney Spears won Worst Supporting Actress for her pre-recorded interview in the film.
- On May 22, 2004 the film was awarded the Palme d'Or, the first documentary to win that award since Jacques Cousteau's and Louis Malle's The Silent World in 1956.
- After the film was given an R rating by the MPAA, Moore appealed hoping for a PG-13 instead; his lawyer, former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo, was not allowed to attend the hearing, the appeal was denied on June 22, 2004, and Cuomo contended that the ban on him was why.
- In February 2011 Moore sued producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein for US$2.7 million in unpaid profits from the film, stating that they used "Hollywood accounting tricks" to avoid paying him; they responded that Moore had received US$20 million for the film and that "his claims are hogwash".
