CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY

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In case you forgot about how, in spite of widespread public disapproval, the banks responsible for America's biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression bilked over 700 billion dollars from the government on top of the billions they stole on "exotic" loan instruments, Michael Moore is here to remind you.

Since making "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko," Moore has polished his humanist vehicle of cinematic political agitprop to a glossy reflecting sheen with an entertaining, touching, and informative movie that's worth repeated viewings.

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Going straight for the jugular of free-market capitalism, Moore visits with teens illegally sent to an outsourced detention center in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The activist filmmaker

 talks to underpaid pilots — you won't believe how little those highly skilled workers make — and visits with people being forcibly removed from their homes in America's foreclosure nightmare.

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But Moore really goes for the gusto of fitfully equating democracy with socialism when he visits companies where every employee owns an equal share, and then shifts gears to explore how companies like Wal-Mart profit on the deaths of employees that the company secretly takes out large life insurance policies on.

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Michael Moore ends the film by saying, "I refuse to live in a country like this, and I'm not leaving."

Take your friends to see this essential document of our times, and talk about it so others can hear you.

Rated R. 117 mins.

5 StarsModern Cole

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