'An Inconvenient Truth' shows Gore’s keynote presentation, speeches and short films, during which he explains the science and politics of global warming.
WASHINGTON, DC: “Hi, my name is Al Gore, and I used to be the next President of the United States,” he says, and the audience laughs.
Meanwhile, Gore, pardon the cliche, is laughing all the way to the bank. In just the second week of its release, Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth has breached the Top 10 Box Office grossers’ list in the United States and is currently at No 9 and climbing.
The collections are not much — just $1.9 million compared with the $38 million that top movie The Break-up starring Jennifer Aniston grossed — but hey! It is a documentary, and it’s on the environment and global warming, for good measure. Interestingly, it had made just $600,000 in its first week, but its revenues shot up by $1.3 million this past week, beating the Lindsay Lohan comedy Just My Luck which grossed just $800,000.
The film shows Gore with a keynote presentation with videos, speeches and short films, during which he explains the science and politics of global warming. The former vice-president, who lost the 2000 Presidential elections to George W Bush after a Florida recount was stopped by the US Supreme Court, has been on the forefront of environmental education in the US for three decades.
Over the last few months, however, rumours have been doing the rounds that the ex-Vice President is interesting in acquiring a nomination from the Democratic Party for next year’s Presidential elections. That may be a tough because he will have a run-in against another Democratic Party hopeful who goes by the name of Hilary Clinton. Gore, for his part, has denied any Presidential ambitions. He said in an ABC television interview on Sunday: “I can’t imagine any circumstances in which I would become a candidate again, I have found other ways to serve and I am enjoying them.” The documentary, he says, is just one of them.
An Inconvenient Truth, produced by Paramount Pictures, had a limited release on May 24 after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival in the US. It had very little advertising, and has mainly gained ground due to word-of-mouth. On Memorial Day weekend, it grossed $91,447 per theatre, the highest of any movie that weekend and a record for a documentary. The only other documentary to make waves in the US recently was Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, based on the Bush administration’s actions before and after the September 11 terror attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre. Moore’s documentary won an Oscar and grossed $220 million worldwide.
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