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Film · 2020
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
1h 30mRDirected by Ajax Phillips, Daniel Joseph Watkins
- Documentary
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.
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Cast
Hunter S. ThompsonSelf (archive footage)- Bob BraudisSelf
- Joe EdwardsSelf
- Alex SweetmanSelf
- Ed BastianSelf
- Travis FultonSelf
Details
- Director
- Ajax Phillips, Daniel Joseph Watkins
- Music
- Gustavo Santaolalla
- Cinematography
- Karl Wolfgang, Lucian Reed
- Editor
- Patrick Welch, Tony Prikryl
- Producer
- Mimi Polk Gitlin, Angus Wall
- Release
- October 23, 2020
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- R
- Language
- English
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