Steal This Movie

did not care for this movie. based on a true story and it tries to be interesting but it is not. d\'onofrio comes across as obnoxious more than anything else. the cast tries but the film winds up just being dull.... Full review

While D'Onofrio's undeniable gifts as an actor occasionally spark to something meaningful, the greater part of his performance comes of as simply hysterical and shrill, an overwrought portrait of a raving lunatic who just happened to be exceedingly principled. ... Full Review

The film is most poignant....his commendable job of recreating the grainy feel of newsreel footage, when appropriate, almost gives the film a documentary feel at times.....Robert Greenwald's unabashedly fawning biopic, explores the life and times of the controversial political activist and anti-war demonstrator..... ... Full Review

The disgrace of "Steal This Movie" isn't just....And the movie fudges the details of the drug bust that sent Hoffman on the lam.....that, as a movie, it's barely competent.....D'Onofrio simply turns up in the next scenes with Hoffman's familiar shock of hair and his grubby hipster-prole clothes.....Yet her performance has to bear the burden of being the only satisfying thing in a film.... ... Full Review

The disgrace of "Steal This Movie" isn't just....Abbie Hoffman, the clown prince of the New Left, was so charismatic and so funny....And the movie fudges the details of the drug bust that sent Hoffman on the lam.....He deserves better than "Steal This Movie" gives him.....D'Onofrio simply turns up in the next scenes with Hoffman's familiar shock of hair and his grubby hipster-prole clothes..... ... Full Review

The film is most poignant....his commendable job of recreating the grainy feel of newsreel footage, when appropriate, almost gives the film a documentary feel at times.....Robert Greenwald's unabashedly fawning biopic, explores the life and times of the controversial political activist and anti-war demonstrator..... ... Full Review

My familiarity with Abbie Hoffman prior to "Steal This Movie" was pretty much limited to an off-hand reference in Moxy Fruvous' song "Stuck In The '90s". ... Full Article

October 12, 2000 - According to a story in today's Hollywood Reporter , a film version of James Ellroy's best-selling account of his mother's murder, and his subsequent investigation of her death forty years after the fact, may be in... ... Full Article

I can't recall a more joyous "biopic," as Variety calls them, nor savoring one with more delicious, malicious retro-glee than "Steal This Movie!The Abbie Hoffman Story." ... Full Article

Abbie Hoffman is gone, but the Yippie prankster's spirit lingers. Three decades after the Chicago Seven trial and 11 years after Abbie Hoffman's death, the scene outside this summer's Democratic gathering at times curiously resembled the giddy anarchy in which... ... Full Article

Abbie Hoffman inspired some of the zaniest footnotes of the Vietnam War era with improv performances mixing civil disobedience and anarchist street theater. Some of his stunts had a certain brilliance, as when he scattered dollar bills onto the floor... ... Full Article

R -By Ed Kelleher For movie details, please click here . Steal This Movie!, a biopic about political activist Abbie Hoffman, takes its title from Steal This Book, Hoffman's autobiography of sorts, which chronicled his exploits in the late 1960s... ... Full Article