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. The skeptical reporter interviews 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 thro... (Full plot summary below)
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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. The skeptical reporter interviews 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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| Salon.comCharles TaylorThe disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt had no craziness to it... and...its false sense of piety to its subject ruined the whole point of the film. |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellVery entertaining film based on a true story. Well worth stealing! |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertProvides an untidy and frustrating but never boring look at his life and times. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldUnashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesThe movie does a marvelous job of authentically capturing the look and mood of the period. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisIt's often a lapsed, under-informed documentary with restagings. |
| Film.comHenry Cabot BeckFor 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. |
| Boxoffice MagazineWade MajorThe greater part of [D'Onofrio's] performance comes of as simply hysterical and shrill, an overwrought portrait of a raving lunatic who just happened to be exceedingly principled. |
| Austin ChronicleKimberely JonesToo bad the movie about him is just as flawed. |
