Steal This Movie! (2000)
Director: Robert Greenweld
Plot Synopsis[]
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?
Male Deaths[]
- Kevin Corrigan (Jerry Rubin)
- Vincent D'Onofrio (Abbie Hoffman)
- Troy Garity (Tom Hayden)
- Donal Logue (Stew Albert)
Female Deaths[]
- Janeane Garofalo (Anita Hoffman)
- Jeanne Tripplehorn (Johanna Lawrenson)