Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Name: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: September 26, 2008
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 66

2008

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: September 26, 2008 | Not Rated

Summary: Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a crucial role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He wrote the Republican Party’s winning playbook which theBoogie Man is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a crucial role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He wrote the Republican Party’s winning playbook which the McCain campaign is currently using. (Interpositive Media)… Expand

Director: Stefan Forbes

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Steve Winn

For a film that depends so heavily on talking heads, it has both a dramatic arc and a sense of character development. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

If you want to hear juicy inside tales of the scams devised by Lee Atwater, the right-wing visionary of media-age dirty tricks, you'll find loads of them in Boogie Man. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

A hugely entertaining, efficiently crafted documentary about a ruthless, if undeniably clever, American political force. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Boogie Man is nonetheless required viewing for anyone obsessed with the 2008 race. Read full review

Robert Koehler

Deeply influential, even to his enemies, Atwater's career is viewed here with fascination and some sympathy. Read full review

Mark Feeney

If there were a liberal equivalent to Fox News (no, not MSNBC, which is so much milk-fed veal to Rupert Murdoch's steak tartare), Boogie Man is the sort of programming it would thrive on. Read full review

Kyle Smith

A documentary that uses against Atwater images of lynch mobs, decades-old racist comments of his onetime boss Strom Thurmond, and a clip of Bryant Gumbel calling him "the architect of the evil campaign." Read full review

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