Canadian Bacon

Canadian Bacon (1995) is Michael Moore's political farce you can watch online on iFILM. A US President (Alan Alda) is tanking in the polls, and his spin doctors land on a fix: manufacture a Cold War — with Canada. John Candy, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak and Rip Torn round out the cast of this sharp satire. It was Candy's final film.

A small-town American sheriff (Candy) is the only person who takes the threat from the north at face value and sets out to fight back single-handedly. The joke is that nobody — not the generals, not the Canadians, not the press — really wants to stop the madness once the machine starts rolling.

Moore wraps his trademark media critique in slapstick, skewering how governments manufacture consent for wars that serve no one. Three decades on, the film hasn't aged out of relevance. Stream Canadian Bacon (1995) online on iFILM.