Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

🎞️ Movie 94 min
โ˜… 8.2 /10 2020

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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.

Cast

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Hunter S. Thompson
Self
Self
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Ed Bastian
Self
Self - Interviewee
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Bob Braudis
Self
Self - Interviewee
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William Kennedy
Self
Self
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Ralph Steadman
Self
Self - Interviewee
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Jann Wenner
Self
Self - Interviewee
Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Santaolalla
Composer
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Robert E. Fulton
Cinematographer
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Lucian Read
Cinematographer
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Karl Wolfgang
Cinematographer