{"id":65,"date":"2007-09-11T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:12:32","slug":"moores-sicko-third-highest-grossing-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/11\/moores-sicko-third-highest-grossing-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore&#8217;s SICKO: Third Highest Grossing Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sicko<\/strong>, documentarian Michael Moore&#8217;s look at the failings of the United States health care system, has just past Al Gore&#8217;s <strong>An Inconvenient Truth<\/strong> in box office receipts, to become the third highest-grossing documentary of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Released by the Weinstein Company, the film has already earned $24.2 million domestically in its first nine weeks of release, placing it behind Moore&#8217;s controversial <strong>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/strong> and <strong>March Of the Penguins<\/strong> on the box office charts. In a break with his past, more partisian works, Sicko received positive notices from critics across the political spectrum including <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121022150948\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,273875,00.html\">Fox News<\/a>, whose Roger Friedman called the film \u201cbrilliant and uplifting,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read the FilmBuffOnLine review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/Reviews\/Sicko.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein Company co-chair Harvey Weinstein said in a press statement, \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible achievement for <strong>Sicko<\/strong> to have become the third highest grossing film in the history of documentaries. We are going to keep the movie in theaters and plan to re-release it during the Fall so that audiences continue to have a chance to experience this entertaining and profound documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sicko, documentarian Michael Moore&#8217;s look at the failings of the United States health care system, has just past Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth in box office receipts, to become the third highest-grossing documentary of all <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/11\/moores-sicko-third-highest-grossing-doc\/\" title=\"Moore&#8217;s SICKO: Third Highest Grossing Doc\">[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":[14],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-documentary"},"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\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}