Moore's 'Sicko' promises to be an 'eye-opener'

June 28, 2007

MONTPELIER – The Savoy Theater is prepping for crowds.
Michael Moore's latest cherry bomb, "Sicko," an exposé of the U.S. health care system, opens Friday at the downtown Montpelier cinema for a run of at least three weeks.

Three years ago, when theater owners Rick Winston and his wife, Andrea Serota, showed Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, they were "so overwhelmed by the crowds" that they added a 4:30 p.m. show, Winston said.

The film is also being promoted locally by a coalition of advocacy organizations – Vermont Health Care for All, the Vermont Workers' Center and the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. The groups plan to make as many as 1,000 free tickets available to uninsured and underinsured Vermonters.

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