Edith Arana,
James Cromwell,
Diane DeVoy,
Jordan Esry,
Scott Esry
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Wal-Mart has become one of America's most successful retail chains by offering everyday goods at low prices for working families. But just how is Wal-Mart able to charge less than many of their rivals... read more
DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005
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December 7, 2009It is one of my sources of happiness to say that: I dont know Wal-Mart, neither do I take one sided Documentaries serious. What this Documentary shows, it is not a secret those many 'chain stores and every second little store around the corner do it already since before the Wal-... read more
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December 1, 2009Ok, everyone already knows that Wal-mart and Wal-mart like stores are sucking the blood of the country. This film brings up lots of good points, but really they are just attacking the big name of an already established system that sucks. It's called 'chain stores'. Everybody p... read more
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May 5, 2009It's excellent at getting it's point across. However, this is mostly hateful propaganda, that is simply the opposite of Wal-Mart's own lovey-dovey advertisements. It raises some excellent points, but seems to go off like some mad old man towards the end. Wal-Mart have such hate a... read more
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April 5, 2009It's not a particularly bad documentary, but I don't feel like I learned anything from it. I knew Wal-mart did these so-called "controversial practcies" already.
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January 21, 2009This is one of those documentaries that will make you angry. It's a hard film to watch because it would appear that Walmart doesn't have an ethical bone in its slick, hypothetical corporate body. Counting the ways in which it exploits everyone and everything does get a little tir... read more
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November 14, 2007Statistically speaking, Wal-Mart is worse than cancer and I actually like Tony Danza and Jim Varney better than Wal-Mart, but this was a ridiculously over the top propaganda film. The High Cost of Low Price nitpicks every little thing about the company--and for as much as I loath... read more
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May 21, 2006This was the perfect mix of factual information along with touching human interest stories. An incredibly moving documentary, that simply tells its story through the perspectives of people affected by Wal-Mart. Must watch material.
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February 28, 2009absolutely mind bottling, yes bottling. so now I have the serious debate on do I still go there. My head says no way but my wallet says ya life is tough all over but low low prices is what I need. I'm from a small town and I understand the mom and pop business situation all to we... read more
Critic Reviews
November 18, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
November 16, 2005
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
November 14, 2005
David Denby, New Yorker
For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn't have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box.
November 14, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Wal-Mart says director Robert Greenwald's film is misleading and inaccurate, but it's hard to dispute the personal accounts from former Wal-Mart employees who speak from experience. Full Review
November 4, 2005
John Anderson, Variety
Whatever Greenwald lacks in style he makes up for with a deluge of facts and figures and a populist feel that make his movies, this one included, accessible even to the most politically naive. Full Review
November 4, 2005
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Greenwald has shrewdly chosen not to go with classic talking head types like economists, academics and journalists. Instead he talked to current and former Wal-Mart employees, including several with a... Full Review
November 4, 2005
Anita Gates, New York Times
Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet.
November 4, 2005
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir.
November 4, 2005
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
It takes the gleam off those penny-saving bargains. Full Review
November 2, 2005
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
With little fanfare, Robert Greenwald has become one of the most incisive activist filmmakers in America. Full Review
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