Steal This Movie (2000)

For someone clamoring for a film about Abbie Hoffman twenty years ago, this would have probably sufficed. Though I can’t attest to its veracity, it covers a lot of the events of Hoffman’s life from his days as a counterculture activist to being on the run from the authorities after a cocaine possession arrest. I found the later half interesting in the family that developed between Hoffman, his second wife, their son, and the woman who supported him while he was in hiding. Vincent D’Onofrio gives a solid performance as Abbie, as do Janeane Garofelo and Jeanne Tripplehorn as the two women in his life. Overall though I think I found a deeper portrait of Hoffman in the concise story shown in The Trial of the Chicago 7.