Dialogue: Michael Moore

May 17, 2007 Michael Moore diagnoses the U.S. health care system in his latest nonfiction expose, "Sicko," from the Weinstein Co. Even before the film's world premiere here today, the U.S. Treasury Department notified Moore that it is investigating his possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba (Moore took ailing rescue workers suffering from the aftereffects of working at Ground Zero after Sept. 11 to the island country in March). Moore, speaking from New York before departing for Cannes, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the risks of tackling health care -- both in attacking the special interests and in crafting a film that challenges audiences who, this time around, are likely to be firmly in his corner. Are they that divorced from reality or the popular culture to know that isn't the right thing to do? I think maybe they thought, "We're going to chance it here to try to paint him with some Castro brush or whatever."

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