Steal This Movie!

Steal This Movie!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Greenwald
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDenis Lenoir
Edited byKimberly Ray
Music byMader
Production
companies
Distributed byLions Gate Films
Release dates
  • March 4, 2000 (2000-03-04) (Santa Barbara)
  • August 18, 2000 (2000-08-18) (United States)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$76,424[1]

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 the 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.

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]

  1. ^ "Steal This Movie (2000)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Holden, Stephen (August 18, 2000). "FILM REVIEW; That Was a Heady Time on the Left, Right?". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ Ebert, Robert (August 25, 2000). "Reviews: Steal This Movie". RobertEbert.com. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. ^ Koehler, Robert (6 March 2000). "Steal This Movie!". Variety. Retrieved 6 July 2020.