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Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

Documentary - 2013
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
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6.8
91%
70
Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.
Director:
,
Jeremy Newberger
,
Seth Kramer
,
Daniel A. Miller
Cast:
,
Morton Downey, Jr.
,
Richard Bey
,
Gloria Allred
,
Michele Bachmann
,
Glenn Beck

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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
87 min
Release date:
7 Jun 2013
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$300,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 nomination

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
This sharp documentary tribute to Downey's bug-eyed, fulminating charisma - he was like a Nixon who'd let out his id - reveals the demons that drove him to fame, then dragged him down.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct 2013
fresh:
The film does an excellent job of showing how hate-TV was molded in the image of snarling, chain-smoking, guest-berating Downey.
– Rob Nelson,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
2 Oct 2013
rotten:
Assorted celebrities and Downey's producers offer some insights, but the movie dwells too long on a group of worshipful former audience members.
– Andrea Gronvall,
Chicago Reader,
12 Sep 2013
fresh:
Evocateur is never less than watchable. At the same time, you have to wonder who's going to watch it.
– James Adams,
Globe and Mail,
30 Aug 2013
fresh:
The movie, made by three former teenage fans of the show, is an odd mixture of admiration and repulsion; even his friends and former producers, interviewed for the camera, seemed mixed in their feelings for him.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
27 Jun 2013
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