Gerrymandering

Name: Gerrymandering
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 15, 2010
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 49

2010

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Release Date: October 15, 2010

Summary: Jeff Reichert's wake-up-call political documentary that exposes the hidden history of our country's redistricting wars, mapping battles that take place out of public scrutiny but that shape the electoral landscape of American politics for decades at time, posing a threat not just to democrats, republicans, but democracy as a whole. (GreenJeff Reichert's wake-up-call political documentary that exposes the hidden history of our country's redistricting wars, mapping battles that take place out of public scrutiny but that shape the electoral landscape of American politics for decades at time, posing a threat not just to democrats, republicans, but democracy as a whole. (Green Film Company)… Expand

Director: Jeff Reichert

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 81 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as the rare politician who supports reform in this timely exposé of how our democracy has slipped off its tracks. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Oct 21, 2010

While the film adopts a sometimes jaunty tone, the fact is that gerrymandering is bad news, assuming you believe that elections should mean something. Read full review

Michelle Orange

It gets complicated: Re-districting in Chicago gave Obama a clear advantage in his Senate election, an inconvenient truth that Reichert leaves open to debate. A clearer example of gerrymandering's mendacity is offered by Tom DeLay, who rides his black heart into yet another political documentary and fills, as ever, the role of the indisputable villain. Read full review

Stephen Holden

An illustrated civics lesson that strains to make its complicated, shadowy subject - electoral redistricting - a political hot topic. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Despite much archival and news footage, along with ample face time from that initiative's most ebullient supporter, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the contest lacks the kind of inherent drama and tension that could have helped quicken the movie's measured pulse. Read full review

Noel Murray

At the start of Gerrymandering, Reichert quotes Thomas Pynchon, writing, "Nothing will produce bad history more directly nor brutally than drawing a line." The same could be said of documentaries. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Watching Gerrymandering is like taking a course on a subject you keenly want to learn about only to discover the lecturer is a boring, old windbag. Read full review

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