Release Date

02 Nov, 2001

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

An uncensored journey into democracy in America

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.

Original Title

Last Party 2000

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Actors

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Tim Robbins

Susan Sarandon

Michael Moore

Rosie O'Donnell

Jesse Jackson

Courtney Love

Ralph Nader

Ben Harper

Noam Chomsky

Harold Ford, Jr.

John Sellers

Christopher Shays

Bill Maher

Melissa Etheridge

Antonia Novello

Rudolph Giuliani

Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

Cheri Honkala

Pat Robertson

Patricia Ireland

Crew

Donovan Leitch

Rebecca Chaiklin

Stanley F. Buchthal

Rebecca Chaiklin

Donovan Leitch

Sabina Sciubba

Kevin Ford

Luke Geissbühler

C.B. Smith

Ben Weinstein

Sabine Hoffman