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  • 2012
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  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 35 m
Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Summary A news anchor reports while graphic news coverage of a terrorist car bomb attack in 1990 in Oakland, CA is shown. Two Earth First! activists are immediately blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. We learn that the victim/suspects Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney have later sued the FBI and Oakland Police and that Judi Bari is now dying of...

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 35 m

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary A news anchor reports while graphic news coverage of a terrorist car bomb attack in 1990 in Oakland, CA is shown. Two Earth First! activists are immediately blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. We learn that the victim/suspects Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney have later sued the FBI and Oakland Police and that Judi Bari is now dying of...

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70
Nov 18, 2012
The film, produced by Cherney, makes a clear and cogent case (later upheld by a court verdict) that police and FBI falsified evidence in order to discredit Bari's cause.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 18, 2012
The only film ever to be released with the promise of a reward--$50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bomber--Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an engrossing account of the case.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 13, 2012
Insult upon injury didn't stop the central figure of Mary Liz Thomson's tough and intriguingly well-told account of the fight between environmentalists and corporate raiders (perhaps abetted, we learn, by the government) from taking the battle to her deathbed.
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60
Dec 7, 2012
Though its early sections feel repetitive and self-congratulatory, the documentary's tension builds in the way director Mary Liz Thomson uses archival material, much of it from TV news.
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60
Nov 15, 2012
There is no satisfactory answer to the titular question posed by this no-frills environmental documentary. But first-time feature director Mary Liz Thomson does answer another one at least as important, by showing us who Judi Bari was.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 16, 2012
Relies too much on rehash and preaching to the choir to kindle a broad-based outrage, but it does make you wonder what really happened on May 24, 1990.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Nov 16, 2012
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Before Occupy Wall Street, there was Redwood Summer
Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/Who-Bombed-Judi-Bari/162678163810077
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Awards

CINE Competition
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Desert Rocks Film and Music Event
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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