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Canadian Bacon
U.S. Movie poster for Canadian Bacon
Directed by	Michael Moore
Produced by	Michael Moore
Written by	Michael Moore
Starring	Alan Alda John Candy Bill Nunn Kevin J. O'Connor Rhea Perlman Kevin Pollak G.D. Spradlin Rip Torn Michael Moore
Music by	Elmer Bernstein Peter Bernstein
Cinematography	Haskell Wexler
Editing by	Michael Berenbaum Wendey Stanzler
Distributed by	Gramercy
Release date(s)	September 22, 1995
Running time	91 min
Language	English
Budget	$11 million
IMDb profile

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Plot

A U.S. president (played by Alan Alda), faced with falling public opinion ratings, decides to go to war to distract voters from domestic troubles and invigorate the economy, a plan supported by his National Security Advisor Stuart Smiley (played by Kevin Pollack) and General Dick Panzer (Rip Torn). The problem with this plan is that with the demise of the Soviet Union, there's no one left to go to war with. But some brainstorming by Smiley leads to an attempt to start a cold war with Canada ("everyone hates Canadians"), using media manipulation as the main tool to stoke the passions of the US public. Unfortunately, a local sheriff, Bud B. Boomer (John Candy, a Canadian in real life), in a town along the US/Canada border, takes it a bit further. For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... Alan Alda (b. ... For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... Kevin E. Pollak (born on October 30, 1957 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor and comedian. ... Rip Torn (born February 6, 1931) is an American Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning television and film actor, who is perhaps best known for his role as Artie on the HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show. ... A cold war is a state of battle between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, acts of espionage or conflict through surrogates (proxy wars). ... Look up Sheriff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ... Canada and the United States of America share the longest common border among any two countries that is not militarized or actively patrolled. ...

Tagline: You surrender pronto, or we'll level Toronto. Another tagline on the poster was Help America Fight the Canadians.

Cast

• Alan Alda as The President/Norman Bates
• John Candy as Sheriff Bud B. Boomer
• Rhea Perlman as Deputy Honey
• Kevin Pollak as Stuart Smiley, National Security Advisor
• Rip Torn as General Dick Panzer

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Production

The movie was filmed in Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Falls, Ontario. The Parkwood Estate in Oshawa was the site for the White House, and Dofasco in Hamilton was the site for Hacker Dynamics. The scene where the American characters look longingly home at the US across the putative Niagara River is, in fact, them looking across Burlington Bay at Stelco steelworks in Hamilton, Ontario. Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Location in the province of Ontario, Canada Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario Incorporated June 9, 1846[1] Government  - Mayor Fred Eisenberger  - City Council Hamilton City Council  - Representatives 5 MPs and 5 MPPs Area [2]  - City 1,138. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ... Dofasco is a steel company based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which is also home to longtime Canadian rival Stelco. ... Satellite image of the Niagara River. ... Burlington Bay, also known as Hamilton Harbour, is a branch of Lake Ontario bounded on the northwest by the City of Burlington, on the south by the City of Hamilton, and on the east by Hamilton Beach (south of the Skyway Bridge) and Burlington Beach (north of the channel). ... This June 2007 does not cite any references or sources. ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Location in the province of Ontario, Canada Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Ontario Incorporated June 9, 1846[1] Government  - Mayor Fred Eisenberger  - City Council Hamilton City Council  - Representatives 5 MPs and 5 MPPs Area [2]  - City 1,138. ...

Facts and Figures

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• The film is noted for its high number of cameos by Canadian actors. As an example, Dan Aykroyd, who is Canadian, appears in the movie uncredited as an Ontario Provincial Police officer. He stops Sheriff Boomer's truck which has anti-Canadian graffiti painted on it in English and lets Boomer and his "heroes" go after the truck has been spraypainted with the graffiti translated into French.
• Oliver North appears at the end in a photograph with Stuart Smiley as the newly-elected president.
• The sequences in the American President's war room are strongly influenced by Stanley Kubrick's black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
• Director Moore appears in a fake news broadcast as one of a group of redneck, gun-toting Americans ready to go to war against Canada. One of his lines is "It's time we put the 'America' back in 'North America'!"
• The end credits state that no Canadians were harmed during the making of the movie, and thank Johnny La Rue for the opening helicopter shot of Horseshoe Falls. This is a reference to a running gag on SCTV where LaRue (a character played by John Candy) famously went over budget for his talk show ("Street Beef") by insisting on ending the show with a long shot from a rented helicopter.
• This film was shot before Wagons East!, but was released a year later.
• A joke that pervades the movie is the irony that Canadian actors in it are playing Canadian-hating US civilians.

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See also

• Dr. Strangelove
• The Mouse that Roared
• Wag the Dog, a 1997 film about a war devised for similar reasons
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which also features war between the U.S. and Canada

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External links

• Canadian Bacon at the Internet Movie Database
• Original Film Review (Video)