Jimmy Carter, Roslyn Carter

Prolific Hollywood director Jonathan Demme tackles the documentary form in this intimate portrait of Jimmy Carter that explicates the former president's view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by sha...( read more  read more... )dowing him on his national book tour. During this publicity junket, Carter is accused of being a liar, bigot and anti-Semite. But it's his candid responses to the controversy and criticism that reveal the Nobel Peace Prize winner's true character.

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Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Release Date: December 31, 2007

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DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008

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  • October 2, 2008
    Jonathan Demme's excellent documentary of Jimmy Carter's struggle to balance on the razor's edge between equal advocacy for both Palestinian liberation and for Israel's right to a peaceful existence. In addition to being "accused of being a liar, bigot, and anti-Semite" -- as if...( read more) that wasn't enough of a challenge -- he's also accused of being a plagiarist with Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, his book that generated all this controversy two years ago. An incredible story about an incredible man.

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