Street Fight

Name: Street Fight
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 22, 2006
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 85

2006

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Argot Pictures | Release Date: February 22, 2006

Summary: This documentary chronicles the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. (Marshall Curry Productions)

Director: Marshall Curry

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 83 min

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The New Yorker - David Denby

In brief, Marshall Curry, the young director of Street Fight, has hit the documentary jackpot: the movie will become the inescapable referent for media coverage of the new campaign. And rightly so. Read full review

Christian Science Monitor - Peter Rainer

As one of Booker's supporters notes, it's a sad day when academic success is used to denigrate an African-American. Read full review

L.A. Weekly - Scott Foundas

This is classical activist filmmaking of the first order, a movie with the power to turn hearts, change minds and, just maybe, right the wayward course of an entire city. Read full review

Philadelphia Inquirer - Steven Rea

Whether or not Street Fight wins the Academy Award Sunday night, Curry's picture is must-see fare for any and every observer of the curious world of American politics. Read full review

Variety - John Anderson

Curry's courage in the face of police harassment and what seems a very real threat of something worse is amazing. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Kevin Crust

The story that first-time feature filmmaker Curry tells is extremely compelling, but where he really scores is in addressing politics and race in a way that allows events to speak for themselves. Read full review

Village Voice - Michael Atkinson

Although the film has a righteous heart, by focusing solely on government as showbiz, it's part of what it decries. Curry makes uproarious hay with the illegal shenanigans of incumbent mayor Sharpe James, but is that all there is? That said, Street Fight has enough cultural crosscurrents to fill out a novel. Read full review

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MarkJ.

Jan 9, 2007

A highly inspiring political documentary, which focuses on the mayoral election in Newark. The events of this race allow Curry to address issues of race, poverty and political spin whilst documenting two fascinatingly opposite candidates. Sharpe James plays the joker to Cory Bookers' A highly inspiring political documentary, which focuses on the mayoral election in Newark. The events of this race allow Curry to address issues of race, poverty and political spin whilst documenting two fascinatingly opposite candidates. Sharpe James plays the joker to Cory Bookers' Batman and you can't help being drawn in to what feels like a battle of truth over lies, honesty over deciept, and good over evil. Fast, thrilling, engrossing, a must see!… Expand

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[Anonymous]

Oct 26, 2006

Excellent documentary, fast paced, straightforward and totally convincing.

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MarcK.

Mar 10, 2007

Enjoyable, interesting, entertaining. A bit on the short side though. When Cory Booker becomes governor of NJ or a Senator of the United States, this film is going to get another look.

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