One Bright Shining Moment
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 18, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Stephen Vittoria & Francis Mankiewicz | |
Edited by | Jeff Sterling | |
Story by | Ron Kovic | |
Interviewee: | Warren Beatty, Dick Gregory, Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn & Jim Bouton | |
Produced by | Michael Donaldson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
An effort to secure former Sen. George McGovern's place in history, and it does a pretty good job.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
It's a deeply flawed film but also an important one; if it does nothing else it should bring this decent and courageous prairie populist, whose very name has become a patently unfair term of abuse, before at least a few members of a new generation.
Salon.com
Rating: 3/5 --
... largely succeeds.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Parallels to the current day are plain to see, so Vittoria's insistence on juxtaposing images of contemporary politicians and an angry narration only undercut the power of his otherwise absorbing presentation.
New York Daily News
[A] surprisingly thorough film.
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L.A. Weekly
Rating: 3/4 --
[Goes] a long way to rehabilitating this unfairly maligned candidate.
TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
This is an excellent time to remind ourselves of this story. Another McGovern would have been a good thing to have the last five years.
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Product Description:
The little known and much maligned 1972 campaign of South Dakota Senator George McGovern was, as this documentary by Stephen Vittoria (BLACK AND WHITE, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD) points out, a high point in American politics. Moreover, its ultimate failure was indicative of the problems in the electoral process as a whole, highlighting the impossibility of success for an honest, idealistic candidate. The film is partly a biography of a truly remarkable politician, and partly a political essay, full of analysis and historical information. Unabashedly partisan, Vittoria provides an alternative history of the events leading up to the election in which Nixon was running for his second term. The civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the student killings at Kent State, and the police riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, are all addressed with extensive archive footage and commentary by an assortment of luminaries. Warren Beatty, Gloria Steinem, Dick Gregory, and Gore Vidal are among those assembled to share their memories and experiences, and McGovern himself reflects without bitterness or regret. The hugely eventful four-year period from 1968 to 1972 forms the crux of the film, with McGovern a galvanizing force in politics, using grassroots tactics to become a formidable opponent despite his lack of funds. A staunch antiwar candidate, McGovern was vocal on many social issues, and demonstrated his willingness to stand up for his unpopular beliefs many times over in the Senate. Perched on the verge of success, however, McGovern made the fatal error that cost him the presidency and determined how history would remember him. In this film, drawing parallels between the Vietnam era and the Iraq war of the early 21st century, McGovern inevitably brings to mind candidates like Howard Dean and John Kerry, who have also been accused of being too decent and not charismatic enough. It is the man's grace, and the enduring strength of his idealism, that carry the film, which is narrated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
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