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The Coca-Cola Case

2009 1h 26m Documentary List
Tomatometer 3 Reviews 61% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Labor-rights activists battle Coca-Cola Co. over violations of international laws.

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The Coca-Cola Case

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Stephen Cole Globe and Mail The movie is badly made, meandering and overemphatic in the way of much left- or right-wing pamphleteering. Rated: 2/4 Mar 26, 2010 Full Review Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) The Coca-Cola Case doesn't break any new ground in terms of its approach to the art of documentary, rather it is in the service of conveying information in order to bring to light. Aug 22, 2017 Full Review National Post Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 1800 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member DON'T DRINK COKE PLZ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Well I didn't like it much, I guess you have to be more coca-cola minded or something like that. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A clunky campaign film following an equally clunky anti corporate campaign... Documentary filmmakers Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez (“Variations on a Familiar Theme”) reteam for this somewhat clunky campaign film, following attempts to hold the multinational soft drinks corporation accountable for the murder of union workers at its bottling plants in Columbia, which occasionally shows up on the festival circuit. Lawyers and union rights activists Daniel Kovalik of the United Steel Workers of America and Terry Collingsworth of the International Rights Advocates engage Ray Rogers of Corporate Campaign to run the “Killer Coke” campaign to support their attempts to prosecute Coca-Cola under The Alien Tort Claims Act for violation of international law. The bumbling antics of Daniel Kovalik form the heart of the film with equally bumbling support from disillusioned hippy Ray Rogers while the far more credible seeming Terry Collingsworth wisely chooses to remain on the sidelines of a painfully misguided campaign which far from the wishes of the victims’ families seems solely focused on getting the corporation to settle. The filmmakers are thus given little to work with and chose to do even less with what they have been given and the film quickly descends into staged phone calls and hysterical finger pointing from the Laurel and Hardy-style leads which merely serves to highlight how not to run a anti-corporate campaign and how not to make a campaign film. “The day we settle, they’ll kill us.” Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member It had some good and eye-opening bits, but overall it lacked cohesiveness and was devoid of any closure. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Labor-rights activists battle Coca-Cola Co. over violations of international laws.
Director
Carmen García
Producer
Yves Bisaillon, Carmen García
Screenwriter
Carmen García
Production Co
Argus Film
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 23, 2017
Runtime
1h 26m
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