Film
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
2020 · 1h 30m · Documentary
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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- 8.4
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Overview
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. Thompson
Self (archive footage)
Bob Braudis
Self
Joe Edwards
Self
Alex Sweetman
Self
Ed Bastian
Self
Travis Fulton
Self
Crew
- Ajax PhillipsDirector
- Daniel Joseph WatkinsDirector
- Angus WallProducer
- Mimi Polk GitlinProducer
- Karl WolfgangDirector of Photography
- Lucian ReedDirector of Photography
- Gustavo SantaolallaOriginal Music Composer
- Patrick WelchEditor
- Tony PrikrylEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- October 23, 2020
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- R
- Genres
- Documentary
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