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Stealing America: Vote By Vote

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Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008)

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Rotten:11

Average Rating:5.4/10

Consensus: While it provides shocking evidence about stolen elections, Stealing America settles for preaching to the converted.

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Aug 1, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: This troubling documentary examines rigged elections and suppressed voter rights in America, and what they mean for the future of democracy. Legislators, activists, and election officials speak out... This troubling documentary examines rigged elections and suppressed voter rights in America, and what they mean for the future of democracy. Legislators, activists, and election officials speak out on the subject, including lingering questions about the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. STEALING AMERICA: VOTE BY VOTE features narration from Peter Coyote. [More]

Director: Dorothy Fadiman

Director: Dorothy Fadiman
Producer: Dorothy Fadiman
Composer: Laurence Rosenthal

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This is not so much a documentary ... as a recruiting tool. We never hear anything from the other side; and the film ends with a fulsome patriotic call to action.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
11/12/08
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Regardless of your politics, it's hard to dismiss the disturbing assertions of this cheaply made but powerful documentary.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
09/19/08
Jeff Shannon
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times

more likely to depress voters than to galvanize them.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
09/18/08
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Stealing America is basically a rallying tool for activists.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/12/08
Walter V. Addiego
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's perhaps the year's most canny piece of propaganda... it soothes a sore spot, and it's very effective.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
09/11/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

It helps for a documentary about America's broken voting system to be flush with facts and outrage. But a little filmmaking wouldn't hurt, either.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/29/08
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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What Stealing America lacks in formal elegance it makes up for in important information that deserves far more compelling delivery, as does its call for a return to paper ballots.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/28/08
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Stealing America: Vote by Vote is sobering. The film suggests that come Nov. 4, the votes of Republicans, Democrats and independents alike might not be counted fair and square.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
08/21/08
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Amateurish but thorough with the tone of an ominous filmstrip. Right-wingers will cry "Paranoid!" but should we demand more neutrality from a film than we do of our elections?

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
08/16/08
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

The title is provocative and the timing is right for an examination of the elctorate process, but the data are tentative and anecdotal and the whole execution poor and clumsy.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
08/05/08
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

If you need any more proof that a movie like Swing Vote is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
08/03/08
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Anyone who doubts for a second that the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Presidential elections were stolen by the Republicans using a methodical process of illegal machinations, should see this nightmare-inducing documentary on the subject.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
08/02/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Everybody loves a good conspiracy theory, and I'm more than willing to believe that Kerry really won. But Fadiman offers only circumstantial evidence when a smoking gun is needed.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/01/08
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Functions as an organizing tool for people worked up about the important issue, but is hardly suitable as a commercial doc release.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/01/08
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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A clumsy if well-intentioned work of recycled propaganda, a mixture of hard evidence, random anecdote and far-flung inference that may convince some viewers that a clear verdict can be rendered on that impossibly murky event.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/01/08
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Stealing America: Vote by Vote does for American democracy what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/01/08
Bruce Feld
Bruce Feld
Film Journal International

Stealing America: Vote by Vote might have been this year's most alarming and patriotic documentary if it weren't so shoddy and dull.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/01/08
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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As much as they champion the notion that any election chicanery is bad for both parties, this is strictly another propaganda-laced lashing out at corporations and the Republicans who use them to steal elections.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/01/08
Mark Keizer
Mark Keizer
Boxoffice Magazine

Despite backing up the sobering message of foul play with largely circumstantial evidence, Stealing America does offer useful advice (vote on paper, fools!) for those worried about our creeping American tyranny.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
07/31/08
Drew Toal
Drew Toal
Time Out New York

This well-crafted documentary about the purported theft of the 2004 presidential election could well be the feel-good movie of the summer -- after all, it absolves the general public for everything that happened.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
07/31/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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