Michael Moore gets Michael Morred

Big Hollywood ^ | 03/23/2010 | Christian Toto

[Robwin]

Michael Moore gets the Michael Moore treatment in a new documentary created by a fellow Michigan resident. Accountant turned filmmaker Kevin Leffler isn’t a dyed in the wool Republican trying to score cheap shots off the liberal gadfly. He’s just a regular Midwesterner who knew the guy being trumped up in the press as the straight talking Everyman wasn’t the real deal.

Leffler grew up in the same part of Michigan as Moore, attending the same Catholic Church and even working together on a local youth hotline. So when Leffler calls out Moore, it means something.

“Shooting Michael Moore” lets Leffler deconstruct the Moore myth. It’s a project with a tiny budget and little Hollywood razzmatazz – Leffler is a CPA and college professor, not a slick documentarian.

But he digs deep enough into Moore’s activities to reveal a more complicated, and damning portrait of the Oscar winner.

[Robwin]

What goes around, comes around.

[Ronin]

Sounds like a project worthy of funding.

[SoldierDad]

Popcorn popping - this one I will watch.

[stainlessbanner]

Leffler interviews Cuban doctors with firsthand experience working in the Communist country’s medical units. They describe a two-tiered system in which government officials and cash-waving tourists get quality care and regular Cubans get … something far, far less.

Coming to America in 2010.

[a fool in paradise]

[HHFi]

This sounds very similar to Mike Wilson’s 2004 film, “Michael Moore Hates America.” Excellent movie, even got a thumb’s up from liberal Roger Ebert. But of course, it wasn’t a piece of leftist propaganda, so it never even found a distributor. I saw it at a film festival. I highly recommend the DVD, if you can find it.