Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 4, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Interpositive Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Sam Donaldson, Tom DeLay, Michael Dukakis & Ishmael Reed | |
| Directed by | Stefan Forbes | |
| Subject: | Lee Atwater | |
| Produced by | Noland Walker & Stefan Forbes | |
| Director of Photography: | Stefan Forbes |
Entertainment Reviews:
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BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY, a remarkable documentary directed by Stefan Forbes, uses interviews with Atwater's targets and, especially, his old comrades, to paint a remarkable portrait of Atwater...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B --
Conventional but absorbing.
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AV Club
Stricken with brain cancer in 1990, Atwater renounced his Machiavellian ways, but as Forbes points out, his legacy lives on in his eager proteges Karl Rove and George W. Bush.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
By the end of Forbes' brisk, economical portrait, Atwater has been revealed as a repugnant and pathetic soul--and a political visionary, among the first to fully understand and harness the raw power of voters' fears.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 4/5 --
Both fascinating and upsetting, and makes you wish politics weren't so, well, political.
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Metromix.com
Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics.
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Film.com
[I]t's a hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force....Director-cinematographer-editor Stefan Forbes rivetingly, often chillingly, frames our country's not-so-distant political past while informing its polarized present.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
He was the political genius behind the Republican Party's resurgence in the 1980s and '90s, helping to usher in a new era of dominance for the Grand Old Party. Along the way Lee Atwater took under his wing such up-and-comers as Karl Rove and George W. Bush. Always controversial, Atwater's strategies in the political arena didn't slink away from using rumors, innuendos, and outright lies to win--most famously in the Willie Horton commercials that doomed Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential campaign. This documentary examines Atwater, his eccentric personality, and profound influence on America.
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