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Steal This Movie!
Lions Gate Films Inc.


7.8

based on 26 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for language, drug content and some nudity

Starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollack, Donal Logue, Kevin Corrigan, Alan Van Sprang, and Troy Garity

The story of Abbie Hoffman, one of the "Chicago Seven."

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Bruce Graham Abby Hoffman & Anita Hoffman (book To America with Love: Letters From the Underground) Marty Jezer (book Abbie Hoffman American Rebel)
DIRECTED BY:	Robert Greenwald
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: January 23, 2001 Video: January 23, 2001 Theatrical: August 18, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	107 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Provides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times.

Austin Chronicle Kimberely Jones

Too bad the movie about him is just as flawed.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

Feels more like a music video than a serious look back at a time, a place and a very smart, funny and unconventional man.

USA Today Mike Clark

A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Scrappy and rambling and overly earnest.

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

Won't work until the film comes out on video.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Vincent D'Onofrio does capture Hoffman's charisma and nuttiness - and he's the only reason to resist the temptation to skip this exasperating movie.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings.

Film.com Henry Cabot Beck

Not quite Abbie.

LA Weekly Marc B. Haefele

Throws in a lot of detail but withholds the real secrets of Abbie Hoffman. His life was no fairy tale. Why should it be filmed to end like one?

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

An admiring but overly simplified walk down memory lane.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

There might have been a better, more involving method of telling Hoffman's story, but it is expressed with a firm sense of commitment to accuracy and authenticity.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Never better than middling, despite its best intentions.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Likable but muddled screen biography.

Variety Robert Koehler

A valiant but seriously flawed attempt to belie the notion that if you remember what you did in the '60s, you weren't there.

TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly

Although Steal This Movie isn't worth the price of admission, it is worth sneaking in to see D'Onofrio and Garofalo's splendid performances.

Slate David Edelstein

Bizarrely depressing.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

This superficial treatment makes so many dubious decisions - oversimplifying issues, for instance, so there'll be more time for high-flying emotion - that 1960s veterans may be moved to protest rather than praise.

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

Comes across as artificial.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Misshapen and obfuscating biopic.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent.

Village Voice J. Hoberman

At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Anna J. gave it a9:
It was an awesome movie but i believe it should have at least a little at the end how some believed his supposed suicide was thought by many to be murder by some government agency.

Frankie F. gave it a10:
This was the best movie I've seen in a long time. It completely captured everything the true hippies and yippies were all about. I got so wraped up in this movie I was screaming in my living room PEACE!!nd BULL S..T!! It definetly is a movie everyone should see sometime in their life especially fellow hippie suporters.

Sarah H. gave it a 10:
Abby Hoffman was the greatist radical ever! maybe if more of us thought like him, the world wouldn't be such a violent place. He told the truth when he spoke.

Jillian Lee B. gave it a 10:
Absolutely amazing as was the book. It makes you think about what we should know versus what we do...

Stacey B. gave it a 10:
I liked this movie because it helped make a little of an understanding for today's generation. As a teenager I am not encouraged to speak out about what I think, but through this movie I realized that I should speak my mind.

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Steal This Movie!
Lions Gate Films Inc.