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Summary
Almost five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong.In his feature--length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented from the people who were there
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Critics and audiences agree
Critics 63Audiences 65GoodWatch 56
Tomatometer71%
Metascore54
IMDb7.2
Audience score57%
Running time
1 h 38 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9698Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Released
2010
August 30, 2010
16 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Harry Shearer Director
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