Every few weeks, Davis Guggenheim finds himself in an encounter with a complete stranger who wants to talk about the impact of his most famous movie.
“It happened just last week — I was in a bar and someone said, ‘Your film changed my life when I saw it as a teenager,’ ” the documentarian, who directed the landmark 2006 climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, tells THR. “He started a clean energy company that now has dozens of employees.”
Nearly 20 years to the day after its release — Truth hit theaters in May 2006 — you’d be hard-pressed to find a movie with a more profound influence on the American consciousness. Some 4 million people saw the film in North American cinemas that heady spring, while tens of millions more have watched it in other venues since, so many of them shifting their thinking as a result. Built around a wonkily captivating Al Gore presentation, the movie was powerful in
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