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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Directed by
John Scheinfeld
and
David Leaf
PG-13
2006
1h 39m
Documentary
,
Biography
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and more
7.3
77%
81%
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A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
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Cast of The U.S. vs. John Lennon
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono
Self
Stew Albert
Self
Tariq Ali
Self
Carl Bernstein
Self
Robin Blackburn
Self
Chris Charlesworth
Self
Noam Chomsky
Self
Mario Cuomo
Self
Angela Davis
Self
Felix Dennis
Self
David Fenton
Self
Bob Gruen
Self
Ron Kovic
Self
Paul Krassner
Self
G. Gordon Liddy
Self
Elliot Mintz
Self
David Peel
Self
John C. 'Jack' Ryan
Self
M. Wesley Swearingen
Self
Joe Treen
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
Jon Wiener
Self
Daniel Richter
Self
H.R. Haldeman
Self
Walter Cronkite
Self
Geraldo Rivera
Self
Strom Thurmond
Self (archive footage)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Though Lennon's commitment to a peaceful world is vivid and unquestionable, The U.S. vs. John Lennon ultimately emerges as a picture of a different kind of commitment: a love story.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Humanizing Lennon to those who might find the man a bit inaccessible, and adding the word 'courage' to his long list of positive attributes.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lennon's spirit, like his music, shines through this movie like a beacon.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Concentrates on Lennon's post-Beatles years, in which he did a lot of great work that's overlooked today, and it's good to have a lot shown on that period.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
The film's first half has zero to do with its title, and its second half digs up familiar turf.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Works by reminding us of Lennon's best qualities: His impish, imperturbable sense of humor, his quick intelligence, his successful bantering with a hostile crush of world press mercenaries.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
It's full-up with footage that shows the hero of the Yoko Ono-sanctioned film to be as witty, entertaining and dependably charismatic as ever, and rarely as simple-minded as his detractors would have it.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
His life has been raked over by so many books, movies, magazine articles, and TV shows that The U.S. vs. John Lennon barely justifies its own existence.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The documentary's a hagiography, no mistake about it, but a fascinating one all the same, and it makes the case that Lennon was as much a genius provocateur as he was a cracked saint.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Entertaining, and a history lesson in hysteria (both on the side of Nixon and the protest movement) for people who were not there.
RogerEbert.com
Jim Emerson
It's great to see a lot of this footage of Lennon -- playful, engaged, warm and spontaneous.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A refresher course in the perils of celebrity and activism, but its syllabus and insights are purely remedial.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Readers tempted to write off that episode as yet another paranoid fantasy of The Left should take heed: The U.S. vs. John Lennon includes the firsthand testimony of the spies themselves, from apostate FBI agents to the unapologetic G. Gordon Liddy.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a movie that, at its best, makes you ache with the memory of an anguished era and its fallen pop culture hero.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
...the film feels like an unintentional parody of liberal documentaries that transform complex topics into elaborate cinematic peace signs.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In exploring a little-known story of political persecution, The U.S. vs. John Lennon also sheds some unexpected light on the uneven and still undigested career of one of the most paradoxical artists pop culture has yet produced.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
It feels as if [Ono's] cooperation resulted in a softened perspective on the musician-turned- activist-turned-icon.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
While there is nothing particularly new in the film, it is a stirring celebration of a man of enormous talent, humor and humanity, laid waste by an assassin in New York in 1980.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Documents the Nixon administration's failed, almost comically inept attempt to deport the most political of The Beatles and his wife, Yoko Ono.
Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
There's little sign of the honest ambivalence that made Lennon a great artist, if a questionable spokesman.
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