Mark Achbar (The Corporation) & Peter Wintonick take on the difficult task of documenting and breaking into accessible sound bytes America's most quoted figure - Noam Chomsky! Successful in it's intentions - this film is funny, provocative, and surprisingly accessible. Chomsky hesitantly tells the story of being a small Jewish boy on the school yard who always sticks up for the underdog - whether it's America's underprivileged or the small boy on the school yard. Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of him as a world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Highlights include Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.