Michael Moore's "Canadian Bacon" was ahead of it's time. Deserves

[KoKo]

another look. I'd never seen it and rented it a couple of nights ago and couldn't believe how close it comes to Bushies War and the Media Hype of it. I know the reviewers panned it when it came out and that it was said it was supposed to be a parody of Clinton, but watching it today it really goes deeper than that. Moore foresaw in many ways what we are dealing with now and he saw it before 1995. It's worth a rental for those who haven't seen it and for those who saw it back in '95 you might find it views differently given what we all have been through. Seeing Alda as playing Bush rather than Clinton it was creepy to see that the Bushies/PNAC could have been following Moore's script. Plus the weapons system that "gets out of control" with the Southern Arms Manufacturer (played by J.D. Spradlin) is believable given the sinister tone of what's going on with our Military/Industrial in bed with Bush/Cheney. (Folks might remember that Spradlin played the evil Nevada Senator in the "Godfather I.")

Here's a brief review (most sites I checked hated the movie..so it was hard to find a snip that gives a straight synopsis of the plot). The cast is very good...who could not enjoy Alan Alda and John Candy is very funny as the bumbler.

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REVIEW:

Watch the civilized world teeter on the brink of anarchy in this hilarious comedy about the New World Order. Beset by falling approval ratings and a sagging ecomony, a desperate U.S. president and his closest advisors launch a campaign to turn America against its most unlikely enemy - Canada. However, Bud Boomer, an overly patriotic Niagara Falls sheriff and his band of misfit deputies actually invade Canada and set off a series of comedic events that leaves the President's plans and the New World Order in shambles.

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Full Cast and Crew for
Canadian Bacon (1995)

Directed by
Michael Moore

Writing credits (WGA)
Michael Moore (written by)

Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
John Candy .... Sheriff Bud B. Boomer
Alan Alda .... U.S. President
Rhea Perlman .... Deputy Honey
Kevin Pollak .... Stuart Smiley, National Security Advisor
Rip Torn .... General Dick Panzer
Kevin J. O'Connor .... Roy Boy
Bill Nunn .... Kabral Jabar
G.D. Spradlin .... R.J. Hacker, President of Hacker Dynamics
James Belushi .... Charles Jackal, NBS Reporter (as Jim Belushi)
Steven Wright .... RCMP Officer at Headquarters
Brad Sullivan .... Gus, CIA Canada Desk Agent
Stanley Anderson .... Edwin S. Simon, NBS News Anchor
Richard Council .... Russian President Vladimir Krushkin
Wallace Shawn .... Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald
Michael Copeman .... Panzer's Aide
Bruce Hunter .... President's Aide
Beth Amos .... Ruthie, Night Shift at Canadian Power Plant
Jack Mather .... Pops, Night Shift at Canadian Power Plant
Kenner Ames .... Mountie Sergeant
Roger Dunn .... Mountie Major

[wli]

1. it may have been made during the Clinton years, but

These tactics were put squarely on Republicans . ISTR in the epilogue R.J. Hacker's body was put on display Lenin-style in RNC HQ, which I found rather amusing in the same vein as the Onion's pyramid to Reagan story.

[KoKo]

2. Kick....in case anyone wants an interesting watch this weekend.

:kick:

[helderheid]

3. I love that movie - had NO IDEA it was a Moore!

[KoKo]

5. I missed it the first time...too. Wasn't as involved in Politics in '95

I guess...:shrug: Life was kinda "normal" back then. '95 was sort of "coasting."

[KoKo]

4. He has some great music like "Green Beret's" and some like

"Born in America" ..Greenwood...the music is 60's and it's amazing how he weaves it into the script.

It's really a great movie...or I thought so...having never watched it before. Really LEFTY DU'ers would probably enjoy it more than our "Centrists."

It has chuckles with lots of "Cassandra." How did Moore really know they would pull a "Stunt" like the Iraq Invasions Redux?" That's what I kept asking myself throughout the whole film. :shrug:

Like an "artist" who isn't recognized until Decades later...Moore really did a job in this film that was his most "commercial" but we need to praise the actors who must have worked for nothing to be in that film...just for a chance to "WORK" and get a little "political message across." :D

[KamaAina]

6. "It's like Cleveland, only cleaner!"

(dragging bagsful of trash onto the Cdn shore) "This'll drive 'em nuts!"

"Oh, yeah, right, Ottawa is the capital of Canada. How dumb do you think we Americans are?"

[KoKo]

13. That WAS funny...and when they took the boat back at the end and the

smokestacks across the border in America were belching fumes. :D

I didn't realize Canada had such strict "Litter Laws." We used to have some strict laws years ago...but it seemed to all end when the Chimp was installed. Right now on NC Highways and in SC and Georgia all the way to Florida on I-95, I-85 and 40, you can see the Mickey D's trash all over the side of the road. The road crews chop it up when they mow...but you can still see the little bits of styrofoam and paper wrappings. :-(

[Generic Other]

7. I loved this movie but could see why it wasn't a mainstream success

Too much political satire. Like an in-joke of Canadian/US border relations.

I laughed my butt off.

[KoKo]

8. Since I didn't see it when it first came out...I had a good Howl at the

Canadians in this, too. Remember they DIDN'T support Chimp in Iraq Invasion and they didn't send troops. They are trying to "placate him" by having Cheney go visit their new Oil Extracting Methods in Alberta..but the Canadians got what a Bizarre Meddler/Doofus the Chimp is and they stood back from his wreckage....

As a Southeasterner, I might not have gotten all the Candian nuances that DU "Border Folk" would get from this movie...but I could understand how funny it was...in that Canadian Charactures were played to the full with it? :D Moore grew up in Flint, Michigan near "Detroit" on the border? :shrug:

Had a friend from Detroit who had half her family over the border in Canada...they used to "razz" each other constantly (in good humor) over the differences in Canada vs US.. It was so funny to listen to her. She could do great Canadian/US border" accents and she could take the part of both doing little dialogs.

She died recently...but she was really fun to be around. I'd like to think she's up there watching us depose the Bush Emperor.

[Generic Other]

9. The bit with Ankroyd and the bi-lingual laws was my favorite

And I think Michael Moore actually made a cameo appearance, didn't he? Leading a protest march? It really was a great film, among my favorites. But then what do I know. I am just one of the loony lefties who love Michael Moore.

[KoKo]

12. Yes...he was there in a protest or something...I liked the "Special Ops"

in black who were supposed to stop the Attack and couldn't make it up the thosand steps to the top of the Canada Tower that was the center of the Nuke Countdown. To see them all "supposedly fit Special Ops" lying on the stairs in exhaustion reminded me of Rummies predictions about how "EASY" Iraq Invasion would be because we have the finest Military in the World. And, yet he didn't give the troops the armor or special training they would have needed to stop the carnage that went on after the Saddam Statue was toppled. Those "Special Ops" were really funny in this movie. They just couldn't seem to get anything right... :D

[baldguy]

10. Niagara Falls NY is EXACTLY as depicted in that movie.

Ten years hasn't changed anything.

[orpupilofnature57]

11. Micheal Moore is a precious citizen, and a friend to America!!