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Movie · 2002

Bowling for Columbine

“Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?”

Released 9 October 2002 120 min Documentary / Drama More from 2002 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Charlton Heston
as Self - NRA President
79
George H. W. Bush
as Self
78
Dick Clark
as Self
72
Jacobo Árbenz
as Self - President of Guatemala
Died aged 57, before release
George W. Bush
as Self
56
Bill Clinton
as Self
56
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Died aged 56, before release
Michael Moore
as Self
48
Mike Bradley
as Self - Mayor of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
47
Keanu Reeves
as Neo (archive footage)
38
Chris Rock
as Self
37
Trey Parker
as Self
32
Matt Stone
as Self
31
Matt Stone
as self
31
Arthur A. Busch
as Self - County Prosecutor: Flint, Michigan
Unknown
Michael Caldwell
as Self - Police Detective
Unknown
Richard Castaldo
as Self - Columbine Victim
Unknown
Steve Davis
as Self - Deputy Sheriff
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
48years between the oldest and youngest billed
79Charlton Heston — oldest on the call sheet
31Matt Stone — youngest billed
51average age of the credited cast
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