Humanity is sitting on a 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's climate system into a
tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,
droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever
experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.
If that sounds like a
recipe for serious gloom and doom - think again. From director Davis
Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, An Incinvinient Truth,
which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's
commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global
warming and inspire actions to prevent 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 an 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
is 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,
one of the worst storm season ever experienced in America, 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 impassioned cause of his life - convinced
that there is still time to make a difference.
Special Features:
- An Update with Former Vice President Al Gore.
- The Making of An Inconvenient Truth.
- "I Need to Wake Up" Music Video by Melissa Etheridge.
- Commentary with Director Davis Guggenheim.
- Commentary with Producers Laurie David, Laurence Bender, Scott Z Burns, Lesley Chilcott.
1 disc, 93mins, Dolby Digital 5.1, Wide Screen, English, Various Subtitles.