Steal This Movie

Steal This Movie (2000)

  • 51% of critics liked it
    (43 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (2,896 ratings)

Steal This Movie! is a dramatic account of the tumultuous life and times of Abbie Hoffman, one of the most visible and influential figures of America's 1960s counter-culture. (Its title was inspired by Hoffman's irreverent "survival guide," Steal This Book.) Hoffman's founding… More

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Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 4, 2000 Wide
LionsGate Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    Vincent D'Onofrio does capture Hoffman's charisma and nuttiness -- and he's the only reason to resist the temptation to skip this exasperating movie.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    There might have been a better, more involving method of telling Hoffman's story, but it is expressed with a firm sense of commitment to accuracy and authenticity.

  • Henry Cabot Beck, Film.com

    For those who regarded Hoffman as the Bugs Bunny of radicalized Amerika, he wasn't the person played by Vincent D'Onofrio in Steal This Movie, good intentions notwithstanding.

  • J. Hoberman, Village Voice

    D'Onofrio's blunderbuss performance obliterates whatever wit and charm Hoffman had.

  • 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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Melvin W


    Steal This Movie is an interesting, captivating, and for the most part unknown biopic of Abbie Hoffman. I will watch anything Vincent D'Onorfio is in; no matter if it's a critically acclaimed film like Full Metal Jacket, a television show(Law and Order) or a unknown movie… More

  • Cynthia S


    Good movie based on the life of Abbie Hoffman. Most of it is told in flashbacks. A journalist is writing a piece on Abbie Hoffman, and through interviews with him, his wife, friends and lawyers we see what happened to make Abbie go "underground"...which is where he is at the… More

  • Unknown H


    It pains me to give this movie two stars but as a great advocate for Abbie Hoffman and the Yippie movement in general, I cannot condone such an inaccurate representation of the great mans life. Although this movie, on the surface is energetic, informed and entertaining, after reading… More

  • Wahida K


    This Movie caused me very bad headache.

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