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Steal This Movie!
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 26 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 8 votes
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Movie Info
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:
Theatrical: August 18, 2000
DVD: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 107 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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."
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What The Critics Said
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Provides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
A film dealing fully with Hoffman's final years might have had a lot more punch.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
An earnest but ultimately scattered effort to put Yippie radical Abbie Hoffman's best foot posthumously forward.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's a compelling story, and very of its tumultuous time.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
It's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings.
Read Full Review >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?
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
An admiring but overly simplified walk down memory lane.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Never better than middling, despite its best intentions.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
It couldn't be any less revolutionary in style. It is straighter than a guitar string.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
