Steal This Movie (2000)
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Country: USA
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance
Release: 2002-06-28
Director: Robert Greenwald
Writers: Anita Hoffman , Abbie Hoffman , Marty Jezer , Bruce Graham
Language: English
Stars: Vincent D’Onofrio , Janeane Garofalo , Jeanne Tripplehorn , Kevin Pollak
Runtime: 107 min
Awards: 2 nominations
AKA: Steal This Movie (United Kingdom) , Abbie! (United States of America) , Özgürlük için (Turkey) , Steal This Movie , Steal This Movie (Canada) , Steal This Movie! (Spain) , Укради этот фильм (Russian Federation) , Steal This Movie (Germany) , A rejtőzködő (Hungary) , Steal This Movie (United States of America) , Επαναστάτης (Greece) , Geração Hippie (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Cudowne lata 60. (Poland)
Plot: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interviews Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?
IMDB:tt0161216