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Roger & Me Review: Michael Moore's Roger & Me offers a scathing critique of corporate America. Offering a strong point-of-view and a palpable contempt for anyone who takes advantage of the working class, Moore reveals a series of heartbreaking people whose lives and city have been taken away from them due to corporate greed. Moore's everyman persona provides a perfect disguise. Those in positions of authority who are willing to talk to him for this film seem unable to comprehend how this chubby average guy could possibly do them any harm. While he certainly takes (arguably deserved but always hilarious) potshots at a future Miss America, game show host Bob Eubanks, and crooner Pat Boone, Moore's bitterness is tempered by a sadness that allows one to forgive him when his satire hits an innocent bystander rather than his intended target. Funny, cruel, outraged, and sad, Roger & Me offers more emotions than the average fiction film -- one of the many reasons it became the most successful documentary ever at the time it was released. Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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