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->''"In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film."''
-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' in [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/an-inconvenient-truth-2006 his review of the film]]

''An Inconvenient Truth'' is a 2006 {{documentary}} presented by former U.S. vice president UsefulNotes/AlGore and directed by Creator/DavisGuggenheim.

It deals with the threat of [[GlobalWarming global climate change]]. The title stems from a quote stating that people will not believe something, even if it is true, if their livelihoods depend on them not believing it -- used here in reference to the energy industry and other polluters. A companion book was created titled ''An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It''.

''An Inconvenient Truth'' is the [[http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm eleventh-highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.]] It would later see a sequel in 2017 entitled ''An Inconvenient Sequel''.

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!!Trope Examples

* AdamWesting: Al Gore introduces himself as "the man who used to be the next [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President of the United States]]."
* AstroTurf: A spoof on this film was sponsored by the DCI Group, which at the time sponsored [=ExxonMobil=] and General Motors.
* GlobalWarming: Obviously.
* GreenAesop: The whole point.
* OffTheChart: Al Gore needed a lift to show where the CO[[subscript:2]] graph was going.
* SelectiveObliviousness: A major theme is that people don't ''want'' to accept climate change because of what they would have to do if they ''did''.
* ShoutOut: Gore uses a clip from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Crimes of the Hot" (the one he guest starred in) to explain how global warming works.
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