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Thirty years ago this week, after winning the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival a few months prior, TCFF Founder & President Michael Moore’s second film, CANADIAN BACON opened in theaters across the U.S.

The film features a powerhouse cast of comedy stars: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Nunn, Rip Torn, and Steven Wright. The Cold War is over and the President of the United States (Alan Alda) needs an external enemy in order to keep the American people in fear so he can maintain public support for his bloated military budget — and keep his billionaires buddies pockets’ lined with cash. After casting wildly about for an enemy he can invade, his insane minders in the White House convince him that his one, true enemy is our great friend to the North. Almost overnight, this loose cannon President has stumbled America into a war with Canada.

At the time, Michael called CANADIAN BACON “a work of fiction” – but today, with a proposal being floated that Canada be made the 51st state, even Hollywood is asking if it shouldn’t now be called a documentary. Either way, CANADIAN BACON is a hilarious lampoon of runaway U.S. hawkishness, and possibly the only film to cast maple syrup as nefarious! It is also, tragically, the incomparable John Candy’s last completed film.

Tuesday, September 16th at 1pm and 7pm