One Bright Shining Moment

Name: One Bright Shining Moment
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 16, 2005
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 64

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First Run Features | Release Date: September 16, 2005

Summary: This documentary examines George McGovern's bold and grassroots presidential campaign of 1972. (First Run Features)

Director: Stephen Vittoria

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 123 min

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David Sterritt

Lively documentary about McGovern's disastrous run for the US presidency. The interviews with him are worth the price of admission. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

It's a deeply flawed film but also an important one. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

A lively, long, intelligent documentary. Read full review

Steven Mikulan

The strength of One Bright Shining Moment lies in its reminder of McGovern's critical role in reforming the way his party chose its convention delegates, and how prescient he had always been about the looming disaster of Vietnam. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Instructive but aggressively biased liberal history lesson. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

The film's greatest asset and strongest selling point is the former senator from South Dakota himself, thoughtful and articulate at age 83, who talks candidly, even eloquently, about his political career. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Amy Goodman's narration, though correct, has a petulant, Spanish Inquisition ring to it, only made more childish by the film's cheap idealization of the senator from South Dakota as some kind of pacifist Savonarola, overdue for canonization. Read full review

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StackL.

Nov 6, 2005

This is a very important historical/political film. It's an alternative look at the past 50 years. The interviews (especially McGovern & Gloria Steinem) are great. Music is cool, too.

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TerryA.

Oct 31, 2005

Interesting in the same manner as watching a train wreck.

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