Steal This Movie!
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Steal This Movie! is a 2000 American biographical film directed by Robert Greenwald and written by Bruce Graham, based on the 1976 book To America with Love: Letters From the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman and 1992 book Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer.[2] The film follows 1960s radical figure Abbie Hoffman, and stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Janeane Garofalo, with Jeanne Tripplehorn and Kevin Pollak.
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Directed by | Robert Greenwald |
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Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
Edited by | Kimberly Ray |
Music by | Mader |
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Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $76,424[1] |
The film follows Hoffman's (D'Onofrio) relationship with his second wife Anita (Garofalo) and their "awakening" and subsequent conversion to an activist life. The title of the film is a play on Hoffman's 1971 counter-culture guidebook titled Steal This Book.[3]
Steal This Movie! premiered at the 2000 Santa Barbara Film Festival, and also showed at the South by Southwest Film Festival.[4]