This Divided State
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Tue 25 October 2005 // 20:00
Greenstreet / 2005 / USA / digital / 88mins / no cert
(Tues 25th / 8pm / £2)
A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the US. Utah Valley State College announced that liberal filmmaker Michael Moore would speak on their campus two weeks before the 2004 US election (Utah is one of the strongest Republican strongholds). Instant fundamentalist and community protests explode all over the media and hysteria rises, to the point where some even claimed Moore's arrival will trigger the Apocalypse. Death threats,
shouting down, bribery, law suits and resignations follow as the student body attempt to defend that old chestnut, the 1st ammendment!
Will conservative activists prevent Michael Moore from speaking? Can the liberal Utahans win their fight for freedom of speech? The answer lies somewhere within this jaw dropping, critically acclaimed documentary. UK PREMIERE!