The Skyjacker's Tale

Name: The Skyjacker's Tale
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 30, 2017
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Bradley Gordon, Emily Schooley, Isabella Carr, Ishmael Muslim Ali, Margaret Ratner Kunstler

2017

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: June 30, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Bradley Gordon, Emily Schooley, Isabella Carr, Ishmael Muslim Ali, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Martin Huss, Michael Ratner, Paul Norie, Robert Ifedi

Summary: Ishmael Muslim Ali (formerly LaBeet) is the American convicted of murdering eight people on a Rockefeller-owned golf course in the US Virgin Islands. After years of trying to get his conviction overturned, he took matters into his own hands and hijacked an American Airlines plane full of passengers to Cuba on New Years Eve 1984, and gotIshmael Muslim Ali (formerly LaBeet) is the American convicted of murdering eight people on a Rockefeller-owned golf course in the US Virgin Islands. After years of trying to get his conviction overturned, he took matters into his own hands and hijacked an American Airlines plane full of passengers to Cuba on New Years Eve 1984, and got away with it. Until now.… Expand

Director: Jamie Kastner

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Jun 30, 2017

What resonates most potently are the scenes of the 1972 trial. Read full review

Craig D. Lindsey

Jun 29, 2017

Canadian documentarian Jamie Kastner (The Secret Disco Revolution) has crafted an entertainingly kitschy version of an Errol Morris film. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Jul 13, 2017

Stylistic choices could have undermined the film, but the story and revelations are so shocking and powerfully absorbing that The Skyjacker’s Tale rises above. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Jun 29, 2017

A Skyjacker’s Tale is all in the telling, and Jamie Kastner’s haphazard documentary misses the opportunity to get it right, despite having access to Ali and an impressive assembly of major players from his past. Read full review

Simon Houpt

Jun 29, 2017

Even as he cuts confusingly between talking heads and time periods, Kastner elides key details that might have given viewers a more complex portrait of both the setting and his anti-hero’s role in the drama. Read full review

John DeFore

Jun 29, 2017

The question of decades-old torture is an important one, of course, but hardly makes this a must-see doc when there are so many present-tense stories of police misconduct to investigate. Read full review

Daniel Schindel

Jun 30, 2017

Despite the intriguing subject matter, this documentary can’t stay in the air. Read full review

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