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| ACTORS: | Vincent D'Onofrio |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Robert Greenwald |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Vidmark/Trimark |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 031398756729 |
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Customer Reviews of Steal This Movie
The 60's as a Saturday morning cartoon. You can't blame Vincent D'Onofrio or Janeane Garofalo for giving this one the good ol' Kent State College try. However, when you're working with a script from the Acme Screenplay Co. that portrays Abbie Hoffman as the Roadrunner and the U.S. Government as Wile E. Coyote, your credibility goes sailing right over that cliff. D'Onofrio, who can be brilliant with the right script or director ("Full Metal Jacket", "The Whole Wide World") might want to shop around for a new agent. He projects obvious enthusiasm for the character, but the lack of attention to other details of the production provides little support for his earnestness. Garofalo is convincingly down to earth as Anita Hoffman, but ultimately isn't given much to do beyond the cliche Concerned Wife routines. Like the theatrical release "Panther" and the TV miniseries "The 60's", "Steal This Movie" is yet one more case of slapping a melange of tired 60's tunes onto a soundtrack for "atmosphere", with little else added that would sucessfully evoke the era of radical politics in America. Meep! Meep!
Abbie---we need you now more than ever
I received this movie for a birthday present, and having read previous biographies of the late yippie (from his brother Jack..et al) I knew the basic chronology of Abbie's life, but seeing a film (however dramatized) gave it a new dimension which had previously lacked in the most sympathetic books.
Watching this film as the Bush administration (who ignored the lessons of Vietnam altogether) declares war on the world reignited the passions of a very burt-out grad student. It may take forever, and the activist themselves may stumble along the way but change is possible. As opposed to the 'time limited' mass media presentation of social change, this transformation is a much slower ongoing process that current generations will not neccessarily be able to see).
The only thing I had a problem with was the movie presented abbie as a great understander of all social movements, when previous books admit that he did not originally comprehend the importance of the feminist and GLBT movements. Eventually realizing their importance, and the necessity of understanding sexism, Abbie (like many other lefties of his generation) had entered with his own internalized biases about what was political and what constituted valid social change.
Overall, however this was a great movie and I encourage ANYBODY involved in social justice work today to pick up a copy of this release for themselves and fellow activists. The end courtroom scene is especially timeless in it's celebration of revolution/indictment of discrimination and the fundamental nature of the US society.
I'm saving 5 stars for DESIRE!!
Vinny was great as Abby...the movie itself was o.k....like I said before....VD saves many of these.... if you want bigger reviews, read the others....mine are quick....worth seeing of course.