The 11th Hour
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. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, New York Times reporter Andy Revkin, and Scripps Institute oceanographer Jeremy Jackson all appear in the movie.[1]
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 film's production.[2]
A pre-release showing of the film at Cannes reportedly ended with most of the attenders asleep.[3] 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."[4]
Links
- The 11th Hour at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ↑ http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/08/18/101351.php
- ↑ http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/05/global-warming-media-disaster-dicaprio-s-11th-hour-bombs-box-office
- ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295768,00.html
- ↑ http://www.filmspot.com/movie/364791/11th-hour/reviews/critic.html?tag=fs_nav;reviews&om_act=convert&om_clk=fstabs