7.6 /10 1 Votes
91% Rotten Tomatoes Music by Peter Rundquist Distributed by Magnolia Pictures Initial release 1 December 2012 (USA) Box office 6,939 USD | 6.9/10 IMDb 70% Metacritic Production
company Ironbound Films Country United States Producer Daniel A. Miller Screenplay Daniel A. Miller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Seth Kramer
Daniel A. Miller
Jeremy Newberger Release date 21 April 2012 (2012-04-21) (Tribeca)
7 June 2013 (2013-06-07) Directors Seth Kramer, Jeremy Newberger, Daniel A. Miller Cast Morton Downey Jr, Glenn Beck, Gloria Allred, Richard Bey, Pat Buchanan Similar The Anthropologist, American Radical: The Trials, The Linguists, Six O'Clock News, Lost in Woonsocket Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie is a 2012 documentary film that chronicles the history of The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Downey's influence on "trash TV." The film also looks at Downey's relationship with Al Sharpton and other important 1980s figures, as well as Downey's role as a predecessor for conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh.
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vocateur the morton downey jr movie official trailer
Synopsis
Évocateur features interviews with Chris Elliott, Gloria Allred, Sally Jessy Raphael, Alan Dershowitz, Curtis Sliwa, and Richard Bey, among others. Previously unreleased footage reveals Downey’s behind-the-scenes fistfights and foibles.
Évocateur also features an interview with Steven Pagones, the white assistant district attorney who was falsely accused of raping black teenager Tawana Brawley in 1988. Pagones discusses how the case and the related TV debates between Downey and Sharpton affected his life.
On July 10, 2015, CNN announced that it had acquired the broadcast rights to the film, and that the network would air it for the first time on August 13. On July 31, the premiere date was pushed back to August 20.