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?
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Second most stolen film in America, the first being
Clerks..
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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".
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"My Back Pages"
Written by Bob Dylan Performed by Jackson Browne & Joan Osborne (as Joan Osbourne) Jackson Browne appears courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Joan Osbourne appears courtesy of Womanly Hips Records
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