Loading...
More...
Loading ...
Category: 39
All Genres: Biography, Drama
Release Year: 2000
Country: USA
Runtime: 107
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Greenwald
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:Stories of rural romance.
Writing by: Anita Hoffman - (book "To America with Love: Letters From the Underground") and
Abbie Hoffman - (book "To America with Love: Letters From the Underground")
Marty Jezer - (book "Abbie Hoffman American Rebel")
Bruce Graham - (screenplay)
Produced by: Jon Avnet - executive producer
Ken Christmas - executive producer
Vincent D'Onofrio - executive producer
Brad Gordon - associate producer
Robert Greenwald - producer
Gerald Lefcourt - associate producer
Jacobus Rose - producer
Elizabeth Selzer - co-producer (as Elizabeth Selzer Lang)
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio - Abbie Hoffman
Janeane Garofalo - Anita Hoffman
Jeanne Tripplehorn - Johanna Lawrenson
Kevin Pollak - Gerry Lefcourt
Donal Logue - Stew Albert
Kevin Corrigan - Jerry Rubin
Alan Van Sprang - David Glenn
Troy Garity - Tom Hayden
Ingrid Veninger - Judy Albert
Stephen Marshall - Louis Wertzel
Joyce Gordon - Florence Hoffman
Music: Mader
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence...
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 interview's 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?
Movie Quotes: Narrator: As this episodic episode begins...
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Many people claim that just as the final scene at the cemetary fades out to the closing credits, you can briefly see the shadows on the snow forming a face (Madison's or Norman's?). There are two eyes, a nose and lips across the entire screen. Others think this is imagination.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The sign behind Abbie Hoffman for the "Chicago 7 Legal Defense Fund" is misspelled "Defence".
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Biography, Drama
Release Year: 2000
Country: USA
Runtime: 107
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Greenwald
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Anita Hoffman - (book "To America with Love: Letters From the Underground") and
Abbie Hoffman - (book "To America with Love: Letters From the Underground")
Marty Jezer - (book "Abbie Hoffman American Rebel")
Bruce Graham - (screenplay)
Produced by: Jon Avnet - executive producer
Ken Christmas - executive producer
Vincent D'Onofrio - executive producer
Brad Gordon - associate producer
Robert Greenwald - producer
Gerald Lefcourt - associate producer
Jacobus Rose - producer
Elizabeth Selzer - co-producer (as Elizabeth Selzer Lang)
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio - Abbie Hoffman
Janeane Garofalo - Anita Hoffman
Jeanne Tripplehorn - Johanna Lawrenson
Kevin Pollak - Gerry Lefcourt
Donal Logue - Stew Albert
Kevin Corrigan - Jerry Rubin
Alan Van Sprang - David Glenn
Troy Garity - Tom Hayden
Ingrid Veninger - Judy Albert
Stephen Marshall - Louis Wertzel
Joyce Gordon - Florence Hoffman
Music: Mader
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence...
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 interview's 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?
Movie Quotes: Narrator: As this episodic episode begins...
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Many people claim that just as the final scene at the cemetary fades out to the closing credits, you can briefly see the shadows on the snow forming a face (Madison's or Norman's?). There are two eyes, a nose and lips across the entire screen. Others think this is imagination.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The sign behind Abbie Hoffman for the "Chicago 7 Legal Defense Fund" is misspelled "Defence".
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Troy Garity, who plays Tom Hayden, is the son of the real Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda.
- Second most stolen film in America, the first being Clerks. (1994).
- The title for the film is inspired by Abbie Hoffman's book title "Steal This Book". It was a "survival guide" for hippies, including then-current names and addresses of places to go for free food, shelter and clothing. Since it was written for those wishing to survive outside the need for money (and it utilized Hoffman's infamous sense of humor), the title encouraged them to steal the book in order to access the information.
RSS feed for comments on this post. • TrackBack URL
Leave a Reply