Yes Men fix the world (The)

  • Yes men refont le monde (Les)
Genre : Political
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2009
Format : Feature
Running time : 85 (in minutes)

The Yes Men Fix The World is a screwball true story that follows a couple of gonzo political activists (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they fi nd a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilisation from its own worst excesses.
Bichlbaum and Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. Armed with nothing but thrift-store suits, they lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate nemeses in ever more extreme ways - basically doing everything that they can to wake up their audiences to the danger of letting greed run our world.
"One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and two of the ballsiest guys I've ever met. Thank God the Yes Men exist." - Morgan Spurlock, director of Supersize Me. Winner of the Berlin Film Festival's Audience Award.



USA 2009, English, Video, 85 min
Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno and Kurt Engfehr
Cinematography: Raul Barcelona

Print Source: Cinetic Media

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