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Chicago 10 (2007) -- Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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Director:
Brett Morgen
Writer (WGA):
Brett Morgen (written by)
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Tagline:
The convention was drama. The trial was comedy. more
Plot:
Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(34 articles)
Ari Folman: "Animation, or Not at All"
 (From GreenCine. 23 June 2009, 7:46 AM, PDT)

400 Screens, 400 Blows - Doc Rant
 (From Cinematical. 6 March 2009, 5:03 PM, PST)

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Cast

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Hank Azaria ... Abbie Hoffman / Allen Ginsberg (voice)

Dylan Baker ... David Dellinger / David Stahl (voice)

Nick Nolte ... Thomas Foran (voice)

Mark Ruffalo ... Jerry Rubin (voice)

Roy Scheider ... Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)

Liev Schreiber ... William Kunstler (voice)

Jeffrey Wright ... Bobby Seale (voice)
Debra Eisenstadt ... Mary Ellen Dahl / Waitress (voice)
Lloyd Floyd ... Robert Pierson / Arthur Aznavoorian / Police Officer (voice)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach ... Paul Krassner (voice)

James Urbaniak ... Rennie Davis / Richard Schultz (voice)
Leonard Weinglass ... Himself (voice)
David Boat ... Norman Mailer / Marshal 1 (voice)
Catherine Curtin ... Barbara Callender (voice)
Julian Dean ... Reporter 2 (voice)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language and brief sexual images.
Runtime:
USA:110 min | Argentina:110 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-03-01)" (2008) more

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What a let down..., 21 August 2008
4/10
Author: jamesstreet from United States

The Kid Stays in the Picture was a great documentary with a refreshing style that managed to keep me hooked into a subject that I honestly wasn't very interested in. So I was extremely excited to see Brett Morgen creating this documentary about history that I was very interesting in and.. Well, Morgen probably reached a little too far on this one.

This documentary is a mix of the very powerful archive footage of the demonstrations and events leading up to them, and a rather insipid animated recreation of the trial. There are no retrospective interviews (many of the 8 are now deceased) and there is no narration - both omissions that suit the style of the director and help emphasize the time and place of the events.

The archive footage could possibly have carried the film by itself. But this documentary is also about the trial. Without any footage or audio of the trial, how do you recreate it so that it appears as the farce that it was - while doing justice to the amazing news footage of protesters being maced and beaten? To do so would honestly have been an amazing accomplishment. Animating the trial was a bold move, but the end result is visually inadequate and mixes poorly with the news footage.

I have no problem with the use of animation, but the animation itself is of very low quality and isn't rather creative. For the trial scenes, I believe the intention was to create a comic look and feel to highlight the nature of the trial itself - but the uninspired designs are too smoothly rendered with wooden mo-cap movement that appears borderline uncanny valley. Other demonstration scenes were animated in a hand drawn/cut out style at an extremely jerky 3-4 frames per second that is difficult to watch to say the least - thankfully they are short. The one redeeming quality of the animation is the voice acting which is top notch across the board, even if Hank Azaria's Abbie Hoffman sounds a lot like Moe from The Simpsons.

My other complaint is the soundtrack, which is about half a mix of 90's rap and another half a mixed bag of pop and metal. The music has no connection to time or events and seems to only take away from the authenticity of the events. I've read the interviews where Morgen describes this movie as being about now, and not 1968 - but I think that is a disservice to the Chicago 8. Sure, there is a war going on right now as was then - but in 2008 young people are more likely to protest high gas prices than the current war.

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