Watch: Steal This Movie 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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?.
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.
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Organizing activities can be harmful to your health.
Robert Greenwald directs this brilliant biopic of ’60s counter-culture rabble-rouser Abbie Hoffman(Vincent D’Onofrio)following his involvement with civil rights demonstrations in the south; his association with the infamous Chicago 7 and his disappearance underground in the ’70s. Great mix of actual historic footage and well paced dialogue based on the books of Hoffman and his wife Anita. The perky Janeane Garofalo portrays Anita Hoffman and Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Hoffman’s girlfriend Johanna Lawrence. Also in the cast are Kevin Pollak, Troy Garity and Kevin Corrigan. D’Onofrio is excellent in the lead role. This is the least heard account of events, but very thought provoking and interesting.
Better than you think (…than I expected)
I was prepared not to like this movie, to think that it did a superficial job. As I watched, I remained unconvinced – the lead-up to the Chicago riots, the demonstrations and riots themselves, the Chicago 8-or-7 Trial, these were nothing new, no great storytelling.But when Abbie went underground, and Anita raised their son without him, and Abbie’s life took the crazy course it took, that’s when this film came alive, and when the characters turned into people. Was the film 100% accurate? I don’t know. But I do know that there was life to be had, not just cardboard cutouts of the myths. I was engaged, and I was moved, and I was impressed.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min), 1 hr 46 min (106 min) (Spain)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
Director Robert Greenwald
Writer Anita Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman, Marty Jezer
Actors Vincent D’Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm