Written, Directed and Produced by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano, Cinetic and Evil Twin Booking Agency, 2009
Sequel to The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World features many more pranks, with even larger implications. They try everything from an Exxon biofuel made from dead people to appearances next to the governor of Louisiana and mayor of New Orleans on how to help those wronged by the government after Katrina. In 2004, when Andy went on BBC posing as an Executive from Dow, the pair got much more than they bargained for. When Andy announced that Dow would finally clean up the site of the Bhopal Catastrophe, an enormous industrial accident involving the release of toxic chemicals at a pesticide plant in India, Dow's stock droped by over two billion dollars in about 25 minutes. Andy and Mike realize that we may have built a market system that makes it almost impossible to do the right thing. They explore the depth of the problem while highlighting the hilarity that is big business. In the end they provide a positive message after 85 minutes of laughter. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and recently opened the Berlin Film Festival on Feb 6th to a standing ovation.
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