Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Name: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 30, 2010
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 55

2010

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Phase 4 Films | Release Date: July 30, 2010 | R

Summary: A look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.

Director: Brigitte Berman

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 124 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

If your sole image of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is that of a lanky, silk-jammied sybarite strolling the grounds of his mansion with a jiggling blond on either arm, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel will knock your socks off. Read full review

Stephen Holden

As for the man who invented it all, he remains a mystery in the film, living out his days in sybaritic bliss. Read full review

Richard Corliss

Watching the film is like reading Playboy for the articles. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

A very mixed bag. Despite some faint gestures in the direction of journalistic balance, it plays a lot like a two-hour infomercial for the Playboy publisher's historical importance, philosophical depth and personal greatness. Read full review

Wesley Morris

One wants to find enlightenment - or at least entertainment - in this reconsideration of Playboy and of Hefner. But it's tainted. Read full review

Rob Nelson

This fawning docu goes to lengths to portray the octogenarian Playboy magazine founder as among the greatest figures of 20th-century American popular culture, while only cursorily acknowledging his status as a pioneering softcore pornographer. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

A proper profile of Hefner would start and end with sex, and not merely glance on casualties like Dorothy Stratten (and even the loveless Hef himself). The movie can't seem to get it up. Read full review

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