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www.reel.com - : Though scholar Marshall McLuhan once famously said, ''The medium is the message,'' the reverse is true of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim's dry but essential fright show about global warming. The film's spokesman, former vice president Al Gore, makes such an irrefutable case here for the immediate implementation of environmental protections to stop the earth's ongoing meltdown that it makes up for the documentary's distinct lack of creative juice. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : A self-professed ''recovering politician,'' former Vice President Al Gore has embarked on a new career -- crisscrossing the globe stumping for his pet cause, the prevention of global warming. The topic has consumed the popularly elected POTUS ever since his studies at Harvard under Professor Roger Revelle, an early predictor of the phenomenon, and characterized much of his early politicking. Indeed, among the archival footage in Davis Guggenheim's film is a young Gore -- long before the infamous Florida election, here recalled simply in images--compelling his Congressional peers to act. To his disappointment, they didn't. more...
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www.variety.com - : Former VP and Presidential candidate Al Gore's crusade to raise awareness of global warming gets a useful new platform in ''An Inconvenient Truth.'' Davis Guggenheim's docu is a straightforward record of the lecture Gore has toured for years, juiced by elaborate graphics. more...
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