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I got so caught up in the movie that a few years later when I got to meet Cloris Leachman she asked me what my favorite movie was. I told her WUSA and she said she was in it. "What part did you play?" I asked. When she replied that she was the crippled girl my jaw dropped and I suddenly recognized her. "I'm so embarrassed," I said. Miss Leachman then graciously said, "Don't be embarrassed. The greatest compliment you can give an actor is to tell them they disappeared into the part." The Newmans (Paul and JoAnn Woodward) and Anthony Perkins vanished into their parts too. Yeah -- the movie was that good!!! Like most period pieces, however, the viewer must be able to recreate the mood of the times. The scary part of the movie is that I knew someone personally who could have been the model for every one of the characters...

I'm a fan of Moore's and a liberal but I was really disappointed in this movie. There was too much whining and not enough substance. OK so there are a couple of corrupt judges in Wilkes Barre PA -- so that makes the whole system suspect? There are bottom feeders in Real Estate and Goldman Sachs hires all the top Econ grads -- that's news? On the other side of the coin he shows one successful socialist co-op business. Aren't there any more? I wanted to see more alternatives to the usual fascist capitalism that has been wrecking our country. The difference between last November and 1929 is that last November we COULD bail out the banks, so we are in a decline, not a free-fall. If Obama would just end the Middle East wars -- didn't he run on that promise? -- we could bail out everybody and fully fund universal health care for most of North America with what we are flushing down the toilet paying exorbitant salaries to "contractors" (read mercenaries) in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moore made those points but too subtly for American audiences. This one is too hip for the room...