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Movie Info

In 2007, conservative blogger Greg Letiecq and local politician Corey A. Stewart push through a crackdown on illegal immigrants in Virginia's Prince William County, leading to a local ordinance that allows the police to stop and question anyone who might be an illegal immigrant. When its backers go too far with their heavy-handed tactics, and the ordinance almost immediately contributes to an economic decline of the county, previously silent members of the community make their voices heard.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Annabel Park, Eric Byler
Producer:

Chris Rigopulos, Eric Byler, Annabel Park
Writer:

Annabel Park, Eric Byler
Release Date (Theaters):

Feb 24, 2010 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

May 3, 2017
Runtime:

1h 20m

Cast & Crew

Annabel Park
Director

Eric Byler
Director

Annabel Park
Writer

Eric Byler
Writer

Chris Rigopulos
Producer

Eric Byler
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Critic Reviews for 9500 Liberty

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (1)

9500 Liberty is not just about the clash of immigrant Hispanics and white nativists, but about what happens when a community's civic machinery is hijacked by ideologues and extremists -- and what exactly it takes for the silent center to push back.

September 9, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
A compelling glimpse of a community and, by extension, a country, in the throes of change.

July 30, 2010 | Rating: 3/5

Cary Darling
Dallas Morning News
Park and Byler began as objective documentarians who found this story being pressed upon them. They become advocates and are clear about that.

July 8, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is such a polemic in favor of open immigration and such an attempt to demonize (through strategic cutting) the anti-immigration forces that it plays more like a propaganda piece.

June 10, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
Most of us are good people when we're sitting around the dinner table. What happens to us as soon as we step up to the public podium?

June 7, 2010 | Full Review…

Desson Thomson
TheWrap
This engrossing documentary traces ugly repercussions in northern Virginia when a resolution is passed requiring cops to question anyone they have "probable cause" to suspect of being an illegal alien, a la Arizona's subsequent hot-button law.

June 7, 2010 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
Variety
Notwithstanding that it's an anti-hate advocacy piece, this YouTube-spawned documentary gives plenty of voice to the depraved foot soldiers and their opportunistic enablers. It just so happens that they look like race-baiting rednecks ...

September 9, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Chris Faraone
Boston Phoenix
This homespun documentary offers an insightful look into one of the earliest eruptions of local acrimony over the issue of illegal immigration.

August 3, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
The movie allows all sides in the issues debated to state their cases, using their own words. If anyone is seen in a negative light, it's only because their words and actions condemn them.

July 22, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Jeff Vice
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
In other hands, in other times, it could have been a simple film that followed the democratic process... But Byler and Park saw their film growing organically in a new direction and went with it.

June 11, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
The release of the new documentary 9500 Liberty couldn't be more timely.

June 7, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Charles Ealy
Austin American-Statesman