Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting ...( read more  read more... )of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview's Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?

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R, 108 min.

Directed by: Robert Greenwald

Release Date: December 31, 2000

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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2001

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  • May 31, 2007
    Abbie Hoffman (Vincent D'Onofrio), the dynamic, energetic political activist who, in the 60s, protested the war in Vietnam and the capitalist philosophies of companies that produced Napalm--most memorably by burning piles of $1 bills outside the New York Stock Exchange--comes int...( read more)o focus in STEAL THIS MOVIE. Outspoken on issues ranging from environmentalism to CIA recruitment on college campuses, Hoffman inspired his generation and taught them how to organize politically. A detailed look at one of American counterculture's most fascinating personalities, STEAL THIS MOVIE is one film not to miss.
  • December 17, 2008
    True story of the FBI and CIA's illeagal harassment of 1 man for his beliefs and the fact he fought for what he believed in. Funny thing what the cops, FBI and CIA did to him that was illegal back then is quite legal for them to do to us now.
  • December 12, 2008
    Another reason to mistrust the government. This is about Abbie Hoffman, the founder of the Yippee movement. They could have gone deeper into the characters and story, but it would have been an extremely long movie.
    5 outta 5, informative and entertaining
    *Added to List-Conspir...( read more)acy Fix & Movies I Own*
  • January 25, 2008
    D'onofrio is absolutely fantastic in this role (he is in most). A movie that gets better every time you watch it.
  • September 14, 2007
    Great movie!! it's always great to learn more and more about life in the 60s and 70s
  • March 12, 2007
    good entertaing movie
  • February 25, 2007
    Even prettier than Abbie Hoffman, if you can imagine.
    And of course the plot and music was coo.
  • January 2, 2007
    trully a fabulous film. a warrior for justice and peace filled with the love of his country, but attacked by the same he loves. america was against him and he still made a difference! hippys are kool and all but this movie takes the scene to a whole nother level, political activi...( read more)sts. best activist movie ever!
  • December 9, 2006
    I wonder what this is about, i think ill see it!
  • November 26, 2006
    Awesome movie! Wish I was a 60s teen

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Information enters the screen from too many directions ...This is distracting at first, but the movie smooths out and finds its rhythm, and the closing passages are quite moving. full review

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