THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
Dirs. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno | 2009 | USA | 87 mins

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are two guys who just can't take "no" for an answer. They have an unusual hobby: posing as top executives of corporations they hate. One day Andy, purporting to be a Dow Chemical spokesperson, gets on the biggest TV news program in the world and announces that Dow will finally clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe. The result: as people worldwide celebrate, Dow's stock value loses two billion dollars. The reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton of bricks: we have created a market system that makes doing the right thing impossible. On their journey, The Yes Men act as gonzo journalists, delving deep into the question of why we have given the market more power than any other institution to determine our direction as a society.

"Outrageously entertaining....This movie is glorious testimony to the moral power of satire." — New York Magazine