Fresh
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.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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Steal This Movie
Overview
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 of violence they then blame on the Left.
Director and cast
- Robert Greenwald Director
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Abbie Hoffman
- Janeane Garofalo as Anita Hoffman
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Johanna Lawrenson
- Kevin Pollak as Gerry Lefcourt
- Donal Logue as Stew Albert
- Kevin Corrigan as Jerry Rubin
- Alan van Sprang as David Glenn
- Troy Garity as Tom Hayden
- Ingrid Veninger Cast
- Michael Cera Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
52%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A committed cast but an awkward script and no budget for production niceties.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
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.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
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.
Henry Cabot Beck, Film.com
Rotten
D'Onofrio's blunderbuss performance obliterates whatever wit and charm Hoffman had.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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