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Article: The Corporation: more than 'a few bad apples'.(Arts & Culture)(Movie Review)
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- February 29, 2004
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Directors: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott. Big Picture Media Corporation 145 minutes. Rated PG.
If a "corporation" could be personified, what psychological characteristics would it have? The Canadian-made documentary, The Corporation, by directors Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar, undertakes this challenging question.
In the process, it has won the Sundance Film Festival Award and the NFB Best Canadian Documentary Award, among others. Abbott's first film, A Cow at My Table, won her several awards, while Achbar's landmark Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media earned him international acclaim.
Through many interviews, case studies, ...