The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth
| 11 April 1999 (USA)

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    tom_75252

    Yes, Micheal Moore was viewed as corrupt himself with his pseudo-documentary "Fahrenheit 911". So maybe he was having a bad year when he screwed up and fell into the same class of people who thought that the USA didn't really land on the moon.But prior to that, in his second season of "The Awful Truth", Mr. Moore got his talent in a deserving spotlight. I especially enjoyed seeing his victims shy away from the camera, like in the episode where he exposed the Public Defenders Office in Nevada for sending 900 people to prison without a trial. Yep, without a trial. You gotta watch it to see the crap that a bureaucracy can pull on an unsuspecting person with regard to their rights.I don't know why there was no season after his 2nd, but Moore did a good job at exposing corruption in his short-lived series "The Awful Truth".And yes he did put his foot in his mouth with "911", but we can forgive him for that, because he has grown used to the idea of corruption.

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    Dire_Straits

    Big-time Republican here. My friends all hate Moore. I like him.THE AWFUL TRUTH, while not a consistently funny show, does have lots of laughs. I admire Moore for his ballsy approach to people. You see plenty of it in this series.He makes his points (usually) and even though I don't agree with 90% of his tripe, I like the show.My favorite show was when he put a Fica plant in an election. That's typical of something Moore would do; his sarcasm is over-the-top and it usually works well. Sometimes, there is way too much of it - but I'll take the bad with the good.I'd like to watch another series like this by Moore. I hope he does another one day.

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    maeva

    Michael Moore is definitely one of the best communicators in this country comparable to the Dalai Lama, though in a different genre. Or perhaps not so different, after all. Isn't what he shows us all about compassion, share, justice, fairness, solidarity, tolerance, awareness, etc? And with the same soft and amused smile?What strikes me most is his absence of belligerence and the sense of grotesque with which he can bring the most unjust, painful, violent or tragic issues to our consciousness. Including the consciousness of some of those responsible for thriving on people's misery.In a country where freedom of speech is apparently granted to all, it is surprising how few people seem to have anything to say. Thanks to Michael Moore for having the courage to use and make good use of such a precious liberty. And let's hope that there are going to be more Michael Moores in the future. Great work. Bravo!

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    Michael DeZubiria

    Michael Moore takes his sharp sense of humor and his strong political opinions to the small screen to screw around with people who deserve nothing more than to be screwed around with. Ever since Roger & Me and The Big One and, most recently, Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore has flogged the political world with their own hypocrisies, and doesn't even stop there. Some of my favorite episodes of this show are ones like the African American Wallet Exchange, in which Moore publicly chastises the NYPD for their idiotic mistakes. One African American man was shot holding a cell phone, because the police thought it was a gun. In another even more sickening event, an African American man was shot in the chest and killed as he was pulling his wallet out of his pocket to show the police his ID. He was cooperating with them 100%, and they killed him. For this, the NYPD deserves nothing more than to be embarrassed in public and on television, and Michael Moore is just the man to do it.I absolutely loved the scene in that show where Moore exchanges black wallets for bright orange ones, and then walks right up to NYPD officers with a poster-board with a gun on one side and a wallet on the other, quizzing the officers on which was which. Moore also hints at a lot of the things that he comments on in Bowling For Columbine as well as his incendiary Oscar acceptance speech at the 2002 Academy Awards. He confronts dozens of politicians and corporate bigheads on their greed and hypocrisy, and launches some of the most creative and original political campaigns in the history of corrupt politicians.To the best of my knowledge, The Awful Truth only ran for two seasons, which is not nearly enough to have exposed all of the corruption and hypocrisy and greed that is infesting this country, so I really hope that Moore is able to get his TV spot back. But given the fact that he launched an enormously insulting show against his own network providers near the end of the second season, it's not hard to see why it's not aired anymore. But on the other hand, just the fact that his show is not on the air anymore is just more proof that he was exactly right all along. Michael Moore is a man to watch, he has a lot of things to say, and while his dry, sarcastic humor may get old after a while, he is pointing out some things about our society that simply need to be pointed out and not ignored any longer. He may have damaged his reputation at the Oscar ceremony this year, but I am more than confident in his talents and his unique way of looking at and exposing the world, and hope to see more movies and TV shows from him in the near future.

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