CHICAGO 10

Headline: ** Stop the Revolution! We Want To Get Off! **
Title: CHICAGO 10
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: N

RATING: R
RELEASE: February 29, 2008
TIME: 100 minutes
STARRING: N/A
DIRECTOR: Brett Morgen
PRODUCERS: Brett Morgen and Graydon Carter
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bill Pohlad, Laura Bickford, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Peter Schlessel, and Ricky Strauss
WRITER: Brett Morgen
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Roadside Attractions

CONTENT: (HHH, SoSoSo, APAPAP, AcapAcapAcap, RHRH, LLL, VV, S, A, DD, MM) Very strong humanist, socialist, anti-American worldview from a very strong anti-capitalist standpoint, with some anarchist leanings and strong revisionist history, especially a comment that Benjamin Franklin was a slaveholder when nothing could be further from the truth; at least 49 obscenities (most of them "f" words) and zero profanities; strong documentary images of riots with some people bleeding but mostly of police beating protestors with little or no footage of what the protesters may have been doing before being beaten; some brief sexual references; no nudity; alcohol use; smoking and some drug references; and, rebellion, mockery with the intent of inciting anger, flippant comments made to incite anger and violence, and protestors use insults for figures of authority, including police.

GENRE: Documentary
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: CHICAGO 10 is a political documentary about the riots and marches during the 1968 Democrat Party Convention in Chicago and its aftermath at the height of the Vietnam War protests, told from the radical protestors' humanist, socialist viewpoint. CHICAGO 10 also contains plenty of strong foul language, violent documentary footage and some drug references.

IN BRIEF:

CHICAGO 10 is a political documentary about the riots during the 1968 Democrat Party Convention in Chicago and its aftermath at the height of the Vietnam War protests, told from the protestors' point of view. The movie starts by showing documentary footage of some of the leaders attending meetings about organizing demonstrations during the Convention. The problem is, after several riots in Chicago during the previous two years, Mayor John Daley decided to order the police to give the protestors virtually no leeway. Consequently, more than 100 protestors and more than 100 police officers suffered injuries during the clashes that followed. Interspersed between the archival footage inside and outside the Convention is an animated re-enactment of a trial where some of the male protestors were tried for a conspiracy to incite people to riot.

As the documentary notes, all of the convictions were thrown out later, and the defendants never re-tried. Even so, the disruptive attitude of some of the defendants, all of whom were anti-capitalist Communists, radical socialists or anarchists, is clear throughout this movie. Even so, the filmmakers clearly side with them and against America's free market, civil society.