ACORN and the Firestorm

Name: ACORN and the Firestorm
Genre: Drama, History, Documentary
Released: April 6, 2018
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Andrew Breitbart, Bill Clinton, Bon Bon, Doug Giles, Glenn Beck

2018

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| Release Date: April 6, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Breitbart, Bill Clinton, Bon Bon, Doug Giles, Glenn Beck, Hannah Giles, John Atlas, Maude Hurd, Patrick Caddell, Sean Hannity

Summary: If you were impoverished, politically voiceless, and believed you didn’t matter, ACORN hoped to change your mind. For 40 years, the controversial community-organizing group sought to empower marginalized communities. Its critics, though, believed ACORN exemplified everything wrong with liberal ideals, by promoting government waste andIf you were impoverished, politically voiceless, and believed you didn’t matter, ACORN hoped to change your mind. For 40 years, the controversial community-organizing group sought to empower marginalized communities. Its critics, though, believed ACORN exemplified everything wrong with liberal ideals, by promoting government waste and ineffective activism. These competing perceptions exploded on the national stage in 2008, just as Barack Obama became president. Fueled by a YouTube video made by undercover journalists, ACORN’s very existence would be challenged. ACORN and the Firestorm goes beyond the 24-hour news cycle and cuts to the heart of the great political divide.… Expand

Director: Reuben Atlas and Samuel D. Pollard

Genre(s): Drama, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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John DeFore

Apr 5, 2018

The doc's poignant heart is in observing how ACORN's most dedicated members have pushed to continue doing good after it was forced to close its doors. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Apr 5, 2018

Although the documentary makes clear how some accusations proved false or overblown, perhaps its biggest flaw is that it’s too eager to hand-wave any actual mistakes that Acorn made. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Apr 5, 2018

Reuben Atlas and Sam Pollard’s convincing but unfocused documentary “ACORN and the Firestorm” firmly contextualizes the group’s targeted debasement and eventual downfall as a landmark event of this modern political moment — not the epilogue of the previous era, but rather the prologue of the current one. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Apr 5, 2018

ACORN and the Firestorm fumbles with the media story, offering cable-news talking heads in montage but not digging deeply into how the story spread — or why elected Democrats believed they had to shut Acorn down. That sense of fumbling shapes the film. Read full review

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