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Oy. An absolute embarrassment to anyone who has an interest in the life and work of Abbie Hoffman. And an absolute heartbreaker to anyone who admired him. I was warned about this movie when it came out but curiosity got the better of me. It’s a shame because there is great biopic material and now it won’t ever get made because this piece of dreck is taking up the shelf space. The only good thing in the movie: the great Kevin Corrigan as Jerry Rubin, taking a few scraps of dialogue and still making a character out of it. (That’s the other heartbreak — we’ll never get the chance to see Rubin’s fascinating life reviewed in film; it could only appear in a Hoffman biopic because Rubin’s tragic sell-out is hard to rally a film around.) Oh, the shame and misery and waste! This movie makes me want to puke! Robert Greenwald must be forced to stick to his decent but boring MoveOn.org message docs. Bobby – a shonde for the goyim, no? Hoberman’s review sheds more light on the waste of this picture.