Canadian Bacon


Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy film which satirizes CanadaUnited States relations along the CanadaUnited States border written, directed, and produced by Michael Moore. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and was the final released film to star John Candy, though it was shot before the earlierreleased Wagons East. It is also Moores only nondocumentary film he made to date.

Serendipitously, American sheriff Bud Boomer John Candy offensively criticizes Canadian beer while attending a hockey game between the neighboring nations in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The ensuing brawl ends up on the news and catches Stuarts attention he collects more information about Canada from a CIA agent named Gus Brad Sullivan, who suggests Canada as their new enemy. Before long, television channels are littered with antiCanada propaganda, which Boomer believes wholeheartedly. He prepares for war by distributing guns to his fellow sheriffs, including his girlfriend Honey Rhea Perlman and their friends Roy Boy Kevin J. OConnor and Kabral Jabar Bill Nunn. After they apprehend a group of Americans dressed as Canadians attempting to destroy a hydroelectric plant, despite Gus protests, they sneak across the border to litter on Canadian lands, which leads to Honey being arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a rescue attempt, Boomer, Roy Boy and Kabral sneak into a Canadian power plant and cause a countrywide blackout. When the President learns of this, he orders Boomers immediate removal from Canada before its too late.Hacker, seeking revenge on the President for shutting down his business, uses a software program Hacker Hellstorm to activate missile silos across the country. The President learns that the signal causing the activation of the silos originated from Canada, and summons Hacker. Hacker offers to sell a program to the President that can cancel out the Hellstorm fortrillion. With only six minutes left, the President is trying to figure out whats going on. Stuart, fed up with the President being too busy to give Hacker the money, realizes that Hacker, getting up to leave, is the one controlling the silos, not Canada, and, after storming up, takes the operating codes from him required to stop the Hellstorm accidentally killing Hacker in the process. The President orders Stuarts arrest, despite his protests that he is now able to give the codes

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