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Theatrical Release Date:
06/28/2006
DVD Release Date:
11/14/2006
Run Time:
92min.
Starring:
Director(s):
Distributor(s):
Sony Classics
MPAA Rating:
PG for brief mild language.
Genre(s):
Documentary
Plot: Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable ... Read More
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This documentary searches for reasons why the government and the auto industry sought to bury the existence of an efficient electric car.
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Burn after reading has received rave revues from film critics so I and my wife went to see on a Sunday afternoon. And frrankly, dear readers, except for being in color had all the gratuitous EFF, MEF... F, EFFS and EFFING words been bleeped out it would almost qualify as a SILENT MOVIE. Full Review
It is uterly discusting how the US Govenment is controled by the oil industry. Wile our sons and daughters are getting killed in Iraq and Afganistan this administration only cares about its own needs ... and how they can get rich. Like the film sayes they can sell us anything they want so dont tell me that there was or is no market for the electric car. I thought for sure there would be one in every garage within just a few years just to find out that the government and the oil company killed every electric car they made. I will never purchase anything from GM again as long as I live They are playing with our lives. not only due to the ever rising cost of fuel but with the pollution the regular cars put into our air. Sorry about the spelling I dont have spell check but I am so mad I just have to speak out. I hope everyone that sees this film gets angry enough do act. Write you congresman write your president write anyone who will listen. We have a right to breath clean air and not to spend all our money on the pump. THIS MUST STOP. Bring back the electric car Ms. President!!! Full Review
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