The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour is a 90-minute environmental schlockumentary produced and narrated by actor Leonardo DiCaprio which endorses the theory of anthroprogenic 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 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