Steal This Movie (2000)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert Greenwald

Writers (WGA):

Anita Hoffman (book) and
Abbie Hoffman (book) ...

Release Date:

28 June 2002 (Spain)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot:

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence...

Plot Keywords:

1970s | 1960s | Fugitive | Undercover Cop | Radical

Awards:

2 nominations

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
Bernard Kay	...	John Hoffman
Jean Daigle	...	Sheriff
Johnie Chase	...	Josh
Joshua Dov	...	Hippie Kid - NYC

Also Known As:

Abbie! (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

107 min | Spain:106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Spain:13 | USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Ardent Films

Trivia:

Troy Garity, who plays Tom Hayden, is the son of the real Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda.

Goofs:

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".

Movie Connections:

Features "The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show" (1962)

Soundtrack:

Carry On

Abbie Hoffman: American

"Steal This Movie" is the biopic of Abbie Hoffman, the famed activist and self proclaimed "orphan of America." The movie paints a portrait of Abbie as a man who loved his country, only not the way the status quo would have wanted him to. Vincent D'Onofrio plays the lead with a real passion, and Janeane Garofalo also displays competent dramatic ability as Abbie's wife Anita. This movie shows America in the 1960s at its best and worst. What I found interesting was its use of grainy film for flashbacks, to take on the look of a '60s documentary. If you were alive in Abbie Hoffman's time, you either loved him or hated him. Seeing the story of his life may give you a new perspective on who he was.