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Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Donal Logue
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
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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)
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.
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)
D'onofrio is absolutely fantastic in this role (he is in most). A movie that gets better every time you watch it.
Great movie!! it's always great to learn more and more about life in the 60s and 70s
Even prettier than Abbie Hoffman, if you can imagine.
And of course the plot and music was coo.
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)
