Casino Jack and the United States of Money R
Come See Where Your Democracy Went
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 14, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Alex Gibney | |
Screenwriting by | Alex Gibney | |
Composition by | David Robbins | |
Director of Photography: | Maryse Alberti |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A]s true stories of political corruption and hubris go, it's pretty explosive...
Movieline
Rating: 7.4/10 --
The narrative trots all over the globe, including stops for labor exploitation in the Marianas Islands, dealings with Russian mobsters,ripping off Indian tribes in the desert southwest, and jetting to Scotland to golf with impressionable politicians.
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NPR
Rating: B --
Dully tells the blood-boiling story of the convicted disgraced conservative superlobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
That the film is overlong ultimately testifies to its importance, though after a while, the outrageous details start to run together like surreal satire. Except, of course, that it's all true.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Gibney is a busy boy, and he draws the lines between Abramoff and his friends -- and his friends' friends -- with the documentary equivalent of a highlighter.
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Boston Globe
A filthy toad of a human being whose every wart is revealed in this hard-hitting documentary.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
Casino Jack is designed as an indictment of a whole culture of influence peddling, a Beltway way of life where a pat on the back often comes with a kickback.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
Lobbyists have long played a powerful role in American politics, but it wasn't until Jack Abramoff became the center of a 2006 corruption scandal with ties to leading members of Congress (and even the White House) that many became aware of just how deep and pernicious their influence truly was. The son of a wealthy businessman, Abramoff became a Republican activist in college, involved in programs to raise funds for GOP candidates and supporting political movements in Angola and South Africa that he believed promoted a free-market ideology. In 2001, Abramoff took control of a profitable gaming empire after the murder of casino owner Gus Boulis, while also operating a lobbying business that curried political favor among Republican politicians through money and expensive gifts (one of his leading allies was GOP party whip Tom DeLay). However, when Abramoff was discovered to have defrauded a number of Native American groups hoping to open gambling casinos with promises of political favors that could be obtained for the right price, his empire came crashing to the ground, taking a number of important reputations along with it. Filmmaker Alex Gibney chronicles the rise and fall of Jack Abramoff and the often bizarre story of how his political and financial ambitions took root in the documentary CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY, which includes interviews with a number of his associates and rare newsreel footage of his early years as a political gadfly. CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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- UPC: 876964003131
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