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	'Steal This Movie'
		"Steal This Movie," the new movie tracing Hoffman's 1960s activism, odd romantic life and years as a fugitive, opened nationally last week but is not yet scheduled for a Pittsburgh run.
		The movie depicts the circus-like Chicago Seven trial, when Hoffman, Hayden, Jerry Rubin and others were accused of conspiracy to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
		The real focus of the movie is Hoffman's private life: the love triangle among him, Anita Hoffman and Lawrenson; and a persecution complex that stemmed from federal surveillance and manic depression.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20000825steal.asp (681 words)

	Steal This Movie! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steal This Movie (2000) is an American biographical film of 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman.
		It was directed by Robert Greenwald and the screenplay was written by Bruce Graham.
		Some criticism of the film is that it is overly hagiographic of Abbie Hoffman and fails to give proper credit to other activists of the era like Paul Krassner, who co-founded the Yippies with Hoffman and his wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steal_This_Movie (240 words)

	DVD Review: Steal This Movie
		"Steal This Movie" focuses on the story of radical Abbie Hoffman, starting in 1977 when he talks with a reporter about what it's been like to be in hiding for the past 5 years.
		VIDEO: Trimark presents "Steal This Movie" in a 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer that, like the rest of the studio's presentations, is generally pleasing, but not without some minor problems.
		Final Thoughts: Although "Steal This Movie" wasn't outstanding, I still thought it was very good and certainly better than the $80,000 it took in at theaters.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/stealthismoviedvd.html (980 words)

	Steal This Movie
		The epoch portrayed in the movie was a glorious time in many ways, one of the last moments for real power to the little people standing against the machine.
		But this movie trivializes the era and the people in it on both sides, turning it into shrill didacticism or reducing it to symbols, with no genuine chance to educate the young about the point it wishes to make.
		means the movie is not good enough to win you over if you hate the genre, but is good enough to do so if you have an open mind about this type of film.
	www.scoopy.com /stealthismovie.htm (1059 words)

	Steal This Movie: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steal This Movie (2000[For more, click on this link]) is an American[Click link for more facts about this topic] biographical film biographical film quick summary:
		A biographical film or biopic is a film about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened....
		In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/steal_this_movie.htm (460 words)

	'Steal This Movie!': That Was a Heady Time on the Left, Right?
		Such movies only reinforce a myth that, its excesses and burnouts notwithstanding, the era was American democracy's glorious last moment of endless possibility.
		"Steal This Movie!" uses the familiar and rather awkward device of having the story unfold in flashbacks and voice-over reminiscences, as an interviewer (Alan Van Sprang) prepares a major article for an unidentified national magazine.
		"Steal This Movie!" is saddled with a fake inspirational ending in which Hoffman delivers a stiff, upbeat courtroom speech.
	www.crimelynx.com /stealrev.html (829 words)

	Movie Review: Steal This Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This movie has gotten rave reviews from lots of 20ish people who aren't familiar with the 1960s but who have remarked that we "are going through the same things today!" Critics are very mixed on the movie.
		Throughout the movie you see that, more than anything, Abbie Hoffman was an activist pioneer the use of flamboyant and provocative tactics to raise awareness of social issues.
		Some critics of the movie call Hoffman the "clown prince of the anti-war movement" and contrast him to activists like Tom Hayden who "played it straight." But in the end, it was Hoffman who never compromised, sold out or went from Yippie to Yuppie like Jerry Ruban.
	www.oz.net /~vvawai/sw/sw41/Steal_This_Movie.html (710 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Steal This Movie"
		Songs of that period (in original and new versions) are laid end to end on the soundtrack, and this touristy, network-news montage is substituted for detail, for a real re-creation of the mood and texture of the times.
		The movie shows the trial as the farce and outrage it was (including Judge Julius Hoffman ordering defendant Bobby Seale gagged and shackled in the courtroom) but it absolves the seven of any part in their conviction.
		Garofalo's Anita, who died of breast cancer two years ago, is the fullest character in "Steal This Movie." Yet her performance has to bear the burden of being the only satisfying thing in a film that otherwise squanders a rich subject.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/08/18/stealthis/index.html (1228 words)

	eBay - VHS: Steal This Movie (UPC: 031398756132) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gerry Lefcourt, the associate producer of STEAL THIS MOVIE, was Abbie Hoffman's attorney for 15 years and he never earned a penny from their working relationship.
		Steal This Movie (2001, VHS)Full Length SCREENER Movie
		Steal This Movie - Vincent D'Onofrio & Janeane Garofalo
	product.ebay.com /Steal-This-Movie_UPC_031398756132_W0QQfvcsZ1178QQsoprZ3318314 (606 words)

	'Steal This Movie' positively portrays notorious '60s protester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hollywood movies of the '80s and '90s have tended to be very hard on the student protesters of the '60s, invariably portraying them as self-indulgent, dope-smoking cowards who spit on the flag and didn't have the guts to fight in Vietnam.
		Robert Greenwald's "Steal This Movie" balances this ledger somewhat with an unashamedly positive look at the rise of the '60s counterculture in terms of a mostly admiring chronicle of the life of one of its most notorious figures: Abbie Hoffman.
		The movie has some clumsy elements (a terrible Nixon vocal impersonation on the soundtrack, for one), and it's noticeably fuzzy about Hoffman's motives in the big-time drug deal that was his downfall.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/stealq.shtml (623 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Steal This Movie (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The movie traces the trajectory of Hoffman (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) from the early 1960s, when he was a civil rights worker in the South, to the late 1970s, when he had gone underground as "Barry Freed" and was a respected environmental campaigner in upstate New York, fighting to save the St. Lawrence River.
		It evokes a time when it was not theft to "rip off" something, because the capitalist pigs, etc., etc. The movie, written by Bruce Graham and directed by Robert Greenwald, has an enormous amount of material to cover, and does it fairly clumsily.
		One element evoked by the movie is the symbolic role of the American flag during the period--a time that also inspired the hard-hat patriotism of "Joe" and the John Prine lyric: Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore / It's already overcrowded from that dirty little war.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000825/REVIEWS/8250303/1023 (887 words)

	Would you steal a movie? - Africans - safe for work, but be careful...
		Steal from the public and you'll get off with having to possibly pay the money back over a convenient period of time, but God forbid you buy a pirated dvd - you could get ass fucked to death in jail, for denying the shareholders of a huge american film studio a grain of profit.
		This whole stealing a movie campaign is rather reminiscent of the "home taping is killing music" campaign that was briefly appeared in the '80s - tapes have come and gone, and even with the "horrifying plague of mp3 piracy" there is still popular music.
		And yes, if you want your movie on dvd before it's on circuit in SA you have to put up with the bouffant hair of the guy in the 3rd row or the guy with the weak bladder who obscures the picture every 5 minutes.
	www.africans.co.za /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=732 (2048 words)

	Steal This Movie - Rotten Tomatoes
		Steal This Movie charts the rise and fall of Abbie Hoffman -- activist, radical, fugitive, lover -- and leads us through the maze of music, politics and personal struggle of the late Sixties and Seventies.
		The movie does a marvelous job of authentically capturing the look and mood of the period.
		Steal This Movie puts a fresh spin on the late '60s.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/steal_this_movie (824 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Steal This Movie" review (2000)
		A somewhat shallow but certainly fond portrait of one of America's most celebrated anti-establishment folk heroes, "Steal This Movie" pays homage to Abbie Hoffman and his liberal ideals without really exploring what those ideals were all about.
		Director Greenwald exploits heavily the fact that he was a stranger even to his own son until 1980, but he skirts Hoffman's character flaws, like the marital strife that arose from his becoming attached to another woman (Johanna Lawenson, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn) during his years in hiding.
		But even with its shortcomings, "Steal This Movie" is a candid and entertaining biography.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/stealthis.html (519 words)

	Amazon.com: Steal This Movie: Video: Vincent D'Onofrio,Janeane Garofalo,Jeanne Tripplehorn,Kevin Pollak,Donal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		`Steal This Movie' is a well-thought, well-written well-acted, well-made dramatization of the life of left-wing activist Abbie Hoffman, probably the most famous of the Chicago Seven.
		I received this movie for a birthday present, and having read previous biographies of the late yippie (from his brother Jack..et al) I knew the basic chronology of Abbie's life, but seeing a film (however dramatized) gave it a new dimension which had previously lacked in the most sympathetic books.
		The only thing I had a problem with was the movie presented abbie as a great understander of all social movements, when previous books admit that he did not originally comprehend the importance of the feminist and GLBT movements.
	www.amazon.com /Steal-This-Movie-Vincent-DOnofrio/dp/B000055WI9 (1872 words)

	Artemis Records - Steal This Movie! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Steal This Movie!" is a cosmic safari through one man's odyssey of devotion, struggle and emotional tenderness.
		"Steal This Movie!" is a unique insight into a passionate man living in a special time in our country.
		The legacy of Abbie Hoffman lives in all who question the status quo, in all who rise to fight the battle for personal expression and in all those who love.
	www.artemisrecords.com /steal_bio.aspx?idx=31&abbr=steal (457 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Steal This Movie (2000)
		Steal This Movie is the biopic of Abbie Hoffman.
		One of the stated purposes of the movie was to expose the next generation to Hoffman's energy and ideals.
		Even if you could care less about the politics the movie is an interesting story of the trials and triumphs of a unique person.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=11206 (955 words)

	STEAL THIS MOVIE; Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, CinemaSense.Com Review.
		The movie faces inevitable dry spells by following the life of a historical figure, but in its total impact, it is engaging, entertaining, and thought provoking.
		Like most revolutionaries who reached the ranks of a public enemy, Abbie was as crazy as he was ingenious, and Vincent D’Onofrio fascinates with the blend of passionate brilliance and manic drive of Abbie’s highs and the paranoid mood swings of his lows.
		As much as the movie recreates the social and political scene of Abbie’s life, it also penetrates into the more obscure areas of his personality and private life.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/steal_this_movie.htm (521 words)

	Steal This Movie! (2000)
		But Steal This Movie's K-Tel's greatest hits approach to Hoffman's life does neither Abbie nor his times justice.
		Steal This Movie shows what he did, but never comes close to illuminating why he did it.
		Steal This Movie means well, but this film about a man who made political theater his life's work desperately needed a shot of its subject's fervor and flair.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=129819&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (811 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Steal This Movie'
		Hoffman's efforts to reach out to his estranged young son, america, are juxtaposed with the end of his long run as a fugitive and his problems with bipolar disorder.
		But Steal This Movie tells us that Hoffman's life as a husband and father is more interesting to a modern audience than the politics.
		Steal This Movie (R; 108 min.), directed by Robert Greenwald, written by Abbie and Anita Hoffmann, Marty Lezer and Bruce Graham, photographed by Denis Lenoir and starring Vincent D'Onofrio and Janeane Garofalo, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.17.00/stealthismovie-0033.html (667 words)

	Steal This Movie
		Actual customer numbers are falling even as box office numbers set new highs each year, and it's because the new night at the movies is a horrendous customer experience.
		Make me believe that I -shouldn't- hold you responsible, because right now you are the movie industry to me. As far as I can see, I'm paying for your mistakes, not those of the movie studios and their negotiators.
		These astronomical amounts are passed on to the movie exhibition industry in the form of higher percentages of the box office going to the motion picture/distribution companies.
	www.pbones.com /writings/20041223movies.php (1982 words)

	'Steal Me' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Melissa Painter's "Steal Me" is that rarity, a low-budget independent picture made in a rural setting that captures an authentic feel and rhythm of the locale without self-consciousness, awkwardness or sentimentality — and with considerable subtlety and an appropriately low-key style.
		Painter has managed to respect the slow pace of life in bucolic Livingston, Mont., yet never let her movie drag, and she has uncovered myriad complexities in a deceptively simple story.
		The paint may be peeling from Tucker's spacious, sunny family home, and his farmer father John (John Terry) may have had to take a day job in a train yard in order to make ends meet.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-steal23sep23,0,6423746.story?coll=cl-mreview (469 words)

	iCommons » Blog Archive » Steal this movie! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The movie ‘Steal This Film‘ offers an interesting view into the world of file sharing.
		‘Steal This Film’ is interesting for two reasons: first it shows an insight into the ideas and thoughts of file sharers, from a variety of different backgrounds; from the average kid on the street to the people behind ‘The Pirate Bay’ and closely related initiatives.
		Secondly, the documentary was made on a shoestring budget (Openbusiness has written more about this here) and was created by people who felt that ‘old media’ was not doing justice to their views on file sharing, or as they state on their site:
	icommons.org /2006/09/01/steal-this-movie (403 words)

	Steal This Movie! - Movie Review
		Independent mainstay Kevin Corrigan is Jerry Rubin, The Tao of Steve’s Donal Logue (in his 29th movie) is Stew Albert, and in an underwritten and wasted role, Kevin Pollak is Abbie’s lawyer, Gerry Lefcourt.
		Garofalo has shown her chops with comic and romantic dialogue, but this movie finally gives her the chance to put all her talents out there.
		This movie, with its added schlock of timely pop hits throughout, ultimately feels like it should be on NBC during sweeps.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/stealthismovie (542 words)

	Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The activist, author and director told the Sunday Herald that, as long as pirated copies of his film were not being sold, he had no problem with it being downloaded.
		Distributed via websites such as suprnova.org, which lays claim to having served more than 17 million downloads, Moore’s documentary critique of the Bush administration’s red, white and blue rush into war with Iraq is among the web’s hottest properties.
		While left-wing sites promote the film’s message, opponents of the high-profile polemicist are urging people to “steal” their copy, thus denying its director his cut of the profits.
	www.sundayherald.com /43167 (856 words)

	Tower Records - Steal This Movie (WS/DD/5.1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In STEAL THIS MOVIE, director Robert Greenwald and executive producer and star Vincent D'Onofrio recreate the life and times of Abbie Hoffman.
		Hoffman is one of the protesters brought to trial, and the trial--of the Chicago seven--is long, contentious, and sometimes hilarious.
		STEAL THIS MOVIE shows Hoffman's private life and his complex relationships with his "Angel," Johanna Lawrenson (Jeanne Tripplehorn), his son, and his second wife Anita--who is movingly portrayed by Janeane Garafolo.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2278904 (550 words)

	Ladyslipper Online Catalog & Resource Guide of Music by Women - Steal This Movie
		In STEAL THIS MOVIE, director Robert Greenwald and executive producer and star Vincent D'Onofrio recreate the life and times of Abbie Hoffman.
		Hoffman is one of the protesters brought to trial, and the trial--of the Chicago seven--is long, contentious, and sometimes hilarious.
		STEAL THIS MOVIE shows Hoffman's private life and his complex relationships with his "Angel," Johanna Lawrenson (Jeanne Tripplehorn), his son, and his second wife Anita--who is movingly portrayed by Janeane Garafolo.
	www.ladyslipper.org /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=53&upc=03139875672 (407 words)

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