Sicko (2007)
91%RT Audience Score: 87%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 Oscar
14 wins & 16 nominations total
Driven by Michael Moore’s sincere humanism, Sicko is a devastating, convincing, and very entertaining documentary about the state of America’s health care.
Sicko is the perfect movie to watch if you want to laugh and cry at the same time. Michael Moore’s witty humor and sharp commentary on America’s healthcare system will leave you feeling both entertained and outraged. It’s amazing to see how other countries can provide universal healthcare for their citizens, yet America still struggles to do the same. While some may criticize Moore for oversimplifying the issue, it’s hard to deny the impact that Sicko has had on the national conversation about healthcare. So grab some popcorn and get ready to be both entertained and enlightened!
Production Company(ies)
Zazen Produções
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Havana, Cuba
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language
Year of Release
2007
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 53m
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Language(s):English, French, Spanish, Russian
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 29, 2007 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 6, 2007
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $36,163,768
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $51,807,053
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,309
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 5,649,624
US/Canada gross: $24,540,079
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $35,155,329
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,220
US/Canada opening weekend: $68,969
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $98,803
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,938
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $9,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $12,893,111
Production budget ranking: 1,565
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $6,942,940
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $31,971,002
ROI to date (est.): 161%
ROI ranking: 736
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Director(s)
Michael Moore
Writer(s)
Michael Moore
Producer(s)
Michael Moore, Meghan O’Hara
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
14 wins & 16 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (218) | Top Critics (67) | Fresh (199) | Rotten (19)
This is the essential ill that Sicko addresses, in an eruption that’s the most unruly and uncategorizable part of the whole movie, and the most unmistakably heartfelt. You want the truth? Moore can handle the truth.
April 12, 2018
Stuart Klawans
Film Comment Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Sicko is wildly comic while tearing apart the country’s health care system.
November 30, 2017
Caryn James
New York Times
TOP CRITIC
There’s plenty of grandstanding, most of it very funny. And in this instance, all that sizzle is selling the steak.
October 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
TOP CRITIC
If other countries can provide their people with universal health care, why can’t we? If we can’t, who are we?
November 8, 2007 | Rating: B+
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
TOP CRITIC
Moore has again made a film which, though basically sound in logic, sugars the pill in a way which seems suspect in its determination to suggest that, as far as healthcare is concerned, America is bad and everywhere else is good.
October 26, 2007 | Rating: 3/5
Derek Malcolm
London Evening Standard
TOP CRITIC
A devastating exposure of America’s iniquitous healthcare system, coolly marshalled and amusingly detailed by Moore.
October 26, 2007 | Rating: 3/5
Anthony Quinn
Independent (UK)
TOP CRITIC
The filmmaker has the habit … of never going to the root of a problem. The lack of depth and seriousness, the extreme limitations of his conceptions are enormously debilitating.
February 14, 2021
David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site
In Sicko, Michael Moore’s irreverent comedy has become less bleating and more purposeful, perhaps in part because the times we live in have become more desperate.
January 29, 2020
Felicia Feaster
Creative Loafing
For the most part, this is a more restrained Moore and the result is another solid documentary that cements Moore’s status as a filmmaker capable of making an audience laugh and think at the same time.
November 21, 2019
Micheal Compton
Bowling Green Daily News
The first line of attack exemplifies Moore at his maverick best… Less interesting or sustained are his rose-tinted views of European health service systems.
November 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/5
Kaleem Aftab
The List
Sicko offers still plenty to get riled up about, but the firebrand ire of Fahrenheit 9/11 seems to have mellowed a little.
August 23, 2017
Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee (British Columbia)
While Moore’s sins aren’t nearly as terrible or significant as those of the political system to which he stands opposed, his unabashed tendency to talk down to his audience is symptomatic of our culture of mediocrity.
July 29, 2015
Michael Joshua Rowin
Stop Smiling…
Plot
Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons’ reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, “Who are we?”
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Michael Moore is the director, producer, and writer of Sicko.
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