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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
With Vice-President Al Gore
TO ORDER AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH GO TO: www.climatecrisis.org
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have
just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction
involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim
comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational
look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the
myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of
defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help
save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling
global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American
public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about
getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens
before it's too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a
tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts
and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw
a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective,
to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life - convinced that there
is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no
longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our
global civilization.
Paramount Classics and Participant Productions present a film directed by Davis Guggenheim,
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH. Featuring Al Gore, the film is produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender and Scott Z.
Burns. Jeff Skoll and Davis Guggenheim are the executive producers and the co-producer is Leslie Chilcott.
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