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Power Trip

EMAILPRINTFilms Transit International

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Paul Devlin

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 12, 2003
DVD: September 26, 2006

Running Time: 86 minutes, Color

Origin: USA / Georgia

Language(s): English / Georgian (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Piers Lewis, Michael Scholey, and Dennis Bakke

In an environment of pervasive corruption, assassination, and street rioting, the story of chaotic post-Soviet transition is told through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts. (Films Transit International)

What The Critics Said

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100

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Intelligent, revealing, and sometimes hilarious.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Filmmaker Devlin details this complicated series of events with clarity, a sense of drama and more than a few touches of dark humor.

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80

Variety David Stratton

Made with deft evenhandedness, Paul Devlin's accomplished film plays almost like a fictional drama, containing suspense, comedy and some colorful characters.

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80

Village Voice Ward Harkavy

Like the best documentaries, this one raises questions instead of providing pat answers. If only Devlin had taken his intrepid reporting a few steps further.

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80

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A skillful assemblage of newsreel clips, cartoons ridiculing the American interlopers, television commercials and interviews with power officials and ordinary Georgians. It gives new and darker meaning to that comfy adage "We're all connected."

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Devlin tells his story without bias but with shards of gallows humor.

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75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

To Devlin's great credit, he keeps us rapt throughout.

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75

New York Post V.A. Musetto

If the documentary has a star, it's pony-tailed AES exec Piers Lewis, who had the impossible job of getting Georgians to actually pay for their electricity.

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70

TV Guide Ken Fox

There's enough information packed into Paul Devlin's documentary about the woes besieging the former Soviet republic of Georgia for two movies.

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70

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

To its enormous credit, doesn't cast the conflict as cut-and-dried exploitation. It presents something altogether more complex--too complex, unfortunately, for an 85-minute documentary to elucidate perfectly.

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67

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

Despite its shortcomings as objective reporting, Power Trip offers a glimpse into a sputtering culture that, after decades of communist rule, has little chance of survival in the modern world.

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50

Washington Post Mark Jenkins

An instructive account of the perils of attempting to privatize decrepit public utilities in countries with stagnant economies.

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What Our Users Said

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