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Going Upriver
Directed by
George Butler
PG-13
2004
90m
Documentary
,
Biography
,
and more
7.8
90%
70%
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A documentary on Senator John Kerry's Navy tour of duty in Vietnam, his contributions to the peace movement that followed, and the ultimate shape of his future political career.
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Cast of Going Upriver
John Kerry
Self (archive footage)
David Alston
Self
Dan Barbiero
Self
Douglas Brinkley
Self
Max Cleland
Self
Bestor Cram
Self
Richard Holbrooke
Self
Bob Kerrey
Self
Going Upriver Ratings & Reviews
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Butler is on record as a close friend of Kerry's, but he's also a well-respected documentarian, who introduced Arnold Schwarzenegger to America in Pumping Iron and chronicled the heroism of Ernest Shackleton in The Endurance.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Filmgoers in the mood for one more go-round will be fascinated by this documentary by George Butler.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
A partisan film but ultimately a powerful one.
Detroit News
Tom Long
To be sure it's blatantly partisan, but this documentary about the current presidential candidate's youth is also a moving exploration of Vietnam veterans who ended up protesting the very war they had fought in.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Butler's film still manages to accomplish what the candidate's foundering campaign has utterly failed to do.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
An unabashed paean to Kerry's character at a time in the presidential election when Kerry's character is being questioned
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Though the film is superbly crafted and occasionally - as with footage of Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - inspiring, it figures to be another sitting duck in the free-fire zone declared by the GOP.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It is difficult to leave this movie without the conviction that Kerry's wartime experience was anything but honorable, regardless of how you feel about his leadership role in Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
His deep knowledge of the now-presidential candidate provides a portrait of a young man consumed by his mission, as he saw it, to save his country from itself.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Butler's stirring film wasn't made to refute its slanders, though it does. It's a richly documented history of Kerry's war- time experience and of the Veterans Against the War movement.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
This should be revelatory to most people -- but most people will probably never see Mr. Butler's film, and certainly none of those who consider George W. Bush as next to God.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
One of the most moving things for me was seeing that some of the high-ranking politicians really did recognize that, hey, we need to meet with these young men and hear what they have to say and that footage is amazing stuff.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
Brinkley has done his homework, and the evidence is on the screen.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
It underscores, with ample footage from his rallying speeches and his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just how important it was for the antiwar movement to be represented by someone like Kerry.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A highly effective campaign biography.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A lucid, emotionally affecting portrait not just of one man but of his times.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
What it shows is not just the Vietnam War experiences of John Forbes Kerry but the experiences of the men who were with him and of the generation from which the candidate's story cannot be extracted.
CNN.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Going Upriver, unlike some of the other documentaries that have been released this year, will maintain its value even after the elections are over.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
His film is pro-Kerry, yes, but the focus is on history, not polemics, and provides a record of the crucial role of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, who because of their credentials could not be dismissed as peaceniks.
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Going Upriver: The Long War Of John Kerry
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