{"id":1094,"date":"2008-09-07T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2018-11-18T22:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T03:39:20","slug":"michael-moore-offers-slacker-uprising-as-free-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/07\/michael-moore-offers-slacker-uprising-as-free-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore Offers SLACKER UPRISING As Free Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Moore will be\u00a0making his new documentary, <strong>Slacker Uprising<\/strong>, which chronicles his 2004 62-city tour to promote young voter turnout for the presidential election, available in a way sure to appeal to the college-age crowd it depicts- as a free internet download.<\/p>\n<p>Starting September 23, the film will be available free of charge for three weeks. A DVD release is scheduled for October 7.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said that the\u00a0internet release, the first of its kind for any major film, is a thank you to his fans for supporting his work for nearly 20 years. Moore first burst on the scene in 1989 with his documentary <strong>Roger &amp; Me<\/strong>,\u00a0which examined the toll taken on Moore&#8217;s hometown of Flint, Michigan when General Motors and the other auto manufacturers upon whom the town&#8217;s entire economy was built started closing plants and shipping jobs overseas. Since then, Moore has had two of his films &#8211; 2004&#8217;s <strong>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/strong> and 2007&#8217;s <strong>Sicko<\/strong> &#8211; become two of the three top grossing documentaries of all time. He also won an Academy Award for his 2002 <strong>Bowling For Columbine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0To register for the free download, simply go to the film&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In the meantime, you can check out the film&#8217;s trailer below-<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V3VRN9CP1OU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V3VRN9CP1OU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Michael Moore will be\u00a0making his new documentary, Slacker Uprising, which chronicles his 2004 62-city tour to promote young voter turnout for the presidential election, available in a way sure to appeal to the college-age crowd <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/07\/michael-moore-offers-slacker-uprising-as-free-download\/\" title=\"Michael Moore Offers SLACKER UPRISING As Free Download\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3,14,559,560],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-coming-soon","8":"tag-documentary","9":"tag-michael-moore","10":"tag-slacker-uprising"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}