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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 10 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by: Stephen Vittoria
Directed by: Stephen Vittoria
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 16, 2005
DVD: April 18, 2006
Running Time: 123 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring George McGovern, Dick Gregory, Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal, Warren Beatty, and Amy Goodman (narrator)
This documentary examines George McGovern's bold and grassroots presidential campaign of 1972. (First Run Features)
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Lively documentary about McGovern's disastrous run for the US presidency. The interviews with him are worth the price of admission.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Running just a little over two hours and wordily narrated by talk-radio host Amy Goodman, Stephen Vittoria's hagiography spends more time bemoaning the past 30 years of U.S. political history and setting the dismal tone for McGovern's arrival on the political scene than it does on his 1972 campaign.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Steven Mikulan
The strength of One Bright Shining Moment lies in its reminder of McGovern's critical role in reforming the way his party chose its convention delegates, and how prescient he had always been about the looming disaster of Vietnam.
Read Full Review >Variety John Anderson
"Too decent to be president" was the label stuck to former senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, the self-effacing subject of Stephen Vittoria's One Bright Shining Moment. If "decent" means "polite," then the movie makes no effort to emulate its subject.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Instructive but aggressively biased liberal history lesson.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
Still, as the documentary plods past the two-hour mark, much of Mr. McGovern's legend seems dependent on Nixon's faults, and even the Democrat's political supporters, with hindsight's many gifts, can't infuse his persona with any more dynamism.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Amy Goodman's narration, though correct, has a petulant, Spanish Inquisition ring to it, only made more childish by the film's cheap idealization of the senator from South Dakota as some kind of pacifist Savonarola, overdue for canonization.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.4 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Stack L. gave it a10:
This is a very important historical/political film. It's an alternative look at the past 50 years. The interviews (especially McGovern & Gloria Steinem) are great. Music is cool, too.
Terry A. gave it a2:
Interesting in the same manner as watching a train wreck.
