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| − | '''The 11th Hour''' is a 90 minute environmental [[schlockumentary]] produced and narrated by actor [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] which endorses the theory of man made [[global warming]]. The film was released in late August 2007 and immediately became a bust at the box office. It was shown on over 111 screens a week, and after the first eighteen days only grossed $417,913 from ticket sales, less than the cost of the films production.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/05/global-warming-media-disaster-dicaprio-s-11th-hour-bombs-box-office</ref> | + | '''The 11th Hour''' is a 90 minute environmental [[schlockumentary]] produced and narrated by actor [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] which endorses the theory of man made [[global warming]]. Unlike [[Al Gore]]'s film, [[An Inconvenient Truth]], the 11th Hour focuses mainly on the alleged "future catastrophes" of man made global warming. |
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| + | The film was released in late August 2007 and immediately became a bust at the box office. It was shown on over 111 screens a week, and after the first eighteen days only grossed $417,913 from ticket sales, less than the cost of the films production.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/05/global-warming-media-disaster-dicaprio-s-11th-hour-bombs-box-office</ref> | ||
Pre-screened showings of the film to reporters ending with most of the attenders asleep. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html</ref> The Chicago Sun newspaper called the 11th Hour "a bore" and the liberal news parody website The [[Onion]] called it "a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key."<ref>http://www.filmspot.com/movie/364791/11th-hour/reviews/critic.html?tag=fs_nav;reviews&om_act=convert&om_clk=fstabs</ref> | Pre-screened showings of the film to reporters ending with most of the attenders asleep. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html</ref> The Chicago Sun newspaper called the 11th Hour "a bore" and the liberal news parody website The [[Onion]] called it "a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key."<ref>http://www.filmspot.com/movie/364791/11th-hour/reviews/critic.html?tag=fs_nav;reviews&om_act=convert&om_clk=fstabs</ref> | ||
Revision as of 02:25, September 7, 2007
The 11th Hour is a 90 minute environmental schlockumentary produced and narrated by actor Leonardo DiCaprio which endorses the theory of man made global warming. Unlike Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, the 11th Hour focuses mainly on the alleged "future catastrophes" of man made global warming.
The film was released in late August 2007 and immediately became a bust at the box office. It was shown on over 111 screens a week, and after the first eighteen days only grossed $417,913 from ticket sales, less than the cost of the films production.[1]
Pre-screened showings of the film to reporters ending with most of the attenders asleep. [2] The Chicago Sun newspaper called the 11th Hour "a bore" and the liberal news parody website The Onion called it "a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key."[3]