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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Argot Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Argot Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m

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)

Directed By: Marshall Curry

Written By: Marshall Curry

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Argot Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Argot Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m

Street Fight

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
85
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 8 User Ratings
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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)

Directed By: Marshall Curry

Written By: Marshall Curry

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Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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.
By David Denby FULL REVIEW
90
It's an electrifying, suspenseful film, full of street-level political drama.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Scott Foundas FULL REVIEW
88
It's a fascinating film, simultaneously enthralling, infuriating and guaranteed to make viewers ask how such a perversion of the political process could be taking place in America.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
80
Curry's courage in the face of police harassment and what seems a very real threat of something worse is amazing.
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75
Properly told, political underdog stories are as compelling as pratfalls from banana peels are funny. Each is timeless and carries an integrity impervious to cynicism.
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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.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Marshall Curry Productions LLC
Release Date Feb 22, 2006
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline In Newark, N.J., elections are won and lost in the streets.
Website http://www.marshallcurryproductions.com/
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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