Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist and anarchist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies").
Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal.
Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s, and remains an icon of the anti-war movement and the counterculture era.
Early life and education
'Abbie Hoffman' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Chicago 8 (2011)
Actors: Maurice Andrews (actor), Johnnie Boyd (actor), Wayne Brandenburg (actor), Jake Broder (actor), Joshua Bruner (actor), Michael Catlin (actor), Dan Cole (actor), Gary Cole (actor), John Colella (actor), Andrew Conlon (actor), Darren Criss (actor), Steven Culp (actor), Mustafa A. Eck (actor), Jamie Elman (actor), Aaron Abrams (actor),
Plot: Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Genres: Drama,Quotes:
[repeated line]::Abbie Hoffman: Yippie!Bill Kunstler: Jail is better than getting your asses shot in Vietnam.
Abbie Hoffman: Sorry dad, I'm ready to go to jail.
Jerry Rubin: [trying to interrupt a huge confusion in the court] Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. [the fight in the courtroom stops]
Abbie Hoffman: [speaking Yiddish to the judge] You are a disgrace in front of the gentiles.
Taking Woodstock (2009)
Actors: Spencer Aste (actor), Skylar Astin (actor), D.M. Atlas (actor), David Wilson Barnes (actor), Seth Barrish (actor), Sebastian Beacon (actor), Leonard Berdick (actor), Darcy Bledsoe (actor), Zachary Booth (actor), David Breitenstein (actor), Michael J. Burg (actor), P.J. Butler (actor), Kevin Chamberlin (actor), Malachy Cleary (actor), Jason Antoon (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music,Taglines: "A Generation Began In His Backyard."
Quotes:
Vilma: You should see what I'm packing up here.Carol: Everyone with their little perspective. Perspective shuts out the universe, it keeps the love out.
VW Guy: Like ants making thunder.
Elliot Tiber: Where are my arms?
[Elliot finds his father pouring a jug into the freshly-filled swimming pool]::Elliot Tiber: Dad, that's bleach for the laundry.::Jake Teichberg: It kills the germs. What's the difference?
[the Chamber of Commerce discussing tourism ideas]::Frank: Well, okay. We got a lot of dairy farms around here, right? And a fair number of bulls. Okay, you've all heard of the running of the bulls in that town in Spain, Pampoona.::Elliot Tiber: Pamplona.::Frank: Well, no one's doing one in the Catskills. Seems to be a big draw over there.::Annie: It would be very amusing to see all those Jews from Levitsky's summer colony, you know, the ones with the black top hats and the curls, running for their lives chased by our local livestock. Wouldn't that be a wonderful sight!
[Elliot is spreading the white bedsheets into a giant X on the lawn to flag down Michael Lang's helicopter]::Sonia Teichberg: Elli! What is this with the sheets?::Elliot Tiber: What does it look like? I'm making a big cross on the lawn!::Sonia Teichberg: With the clean sheets? Jake, our boy's gone crazy! Making a Ku Klux Klan rally on our property!
Billy: I remember this hill.::Elliot Tiber: Like "remember" remember or "Vietnam flashback" remember?
Elliot Tiber: Mom! Dad! You're like superheroes!
Sonia Teichberg: No stchupping in the bushes!
Chicago 10 (2007)
Actors: Hank Azaria (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), David Boat (actor), David Boat (actor), Rennie Davis (actor), Julian Dean (actor), David Dellinger (actor), Lloyd Floyd (actor), Lloyd Floyd (actor), Lloyd Floyd (actor), John Froines (actor), Daniel Hagen (actor), Tom Hayden (actor), Hank Azaria (actor),
Genres: Animation, Documentary, History, War,Taglines: The convention was drama. The trial was comedy. Speak Your Peace.
Steal This Movie (2000)
Actors: Marc Aubin (actor), Nick Bacon (actor), Trevor Bain (actor), Demore Barnes (actor), James Binkley (actor), Bill Boyd (actor), Michael Capellupo (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), Michael Cera (actor), Johnie Chase (actor), Stuart Clow (actor), Jim Codrington (actor), Kevin Corrigan (actor), Philip Craig (actor), Spiro Agnew (actor),
Plot: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interviews Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?
Keywords: 1960s, 1968-democratic-convention, 1970s, african-american, airplane, alienation, american, amusement-park, anti-establishment, apartheidGenres: Biography, Drama, Romance,
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (1999)
Actors: James Cameron (actor), Rob Coleman (actor), Richard D'Alessandro (actor), David Dozoretz (actor), David C. Fisher (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Ray Harryhausen (actor), Bob Hoskins (actor), Ron Howard (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), John Knoll (actor), John Lasseter (actor), George Lucas (actor), Ahmed Best (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Forrest Gump (1994)
Actors: Rob Adams (actor), Todd Adamson (actor), Joe Alaskey (actor), Markus Alexander (actor), Sam Anderson (actor), Neil Armstrong (actor), Pete Auster (actor), Peter Bannon (actor), Kenneth Bevington (actor), Geoffrey Blake (actor), Jim Boeke (actor), Charles Boswell (actor), Jack Bowden (actor), Grady Bowman (actor), Joe Abby (actor),
Plot: Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.
Keywords: amputee, assassination-of-president, assembling-a-rifle, attempted-suicide, balcony, based-on-book, based-on-novel, bathroom, battle, blockbusterGenres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The story of a lifetime. The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump. Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get.
Quotes:
Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?::[Jenny turns and looks at him]::Forrest Gump: I'd make a good husband, Jenny.::Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.::Forrest Gump: ...But you won't marry me.::Jenny Curran: [sadly]... You don't wanna marry me.::Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny? [Jenny says nothing] I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is.[young Jenny's father is chasing her through the fields to beat her when she stops and hides]::Young Jenny Curran: Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.
[repeated line]::Forrest Gump: My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Mrs. Gump: You have to do the best with what God gave you.
Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?::Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!::Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump. Listen up, people...::Forrest Gump: [narrates] Now for some reason I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight and always answer every question with "Yes, drill sergeant."::Drill Sergeant: ...Is that clear?::Forrest Gump: Yes, drill sergeant!
Forrest Gump: Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.
Forrest Gump: You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.
Forrest Gump: He should not be hitting you, Jenny.
Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan, I got you some ice cream. [voice wavering] Lieutenant Dan, ice cream.
Forrest Gump: And cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doin it so much, I cut that grass for free.
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)
Actors: Brian Benben (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Robert Carradine (actor), David Clennon (actor), Robert Fieldsteel (actor), Elliott Gould (actor), David Kagen (actor), Michael Lembeck (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Carl Lumbly (actor), Barry Miller (actor), David Opatoshu (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Martin Sheen (actor), Harris Yulin (actor),
Plot: A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.
Keywords: based-on-true-storyGenres: Drama,
Chicago 70 (1970)
Actors: Calvin Butler (actor), Mel Dixon (actor), Peter Faulkner (actor), François Klanfer (actor), James T. Lawrence (actor), Rick McKenna (actor), George Netesky (actor), Neil Walsh (actor), Neil Walsh (actor), Ray Whelan (actor), Carol Carrington (actress), Yvonne Gilbert (actress), Diane Grant (actress), Kerry Feltham (producer), Herschell Gordon Lewis (writer),
Plot: This bizarre amalgam of "Alice in Wonderland" and the transcripts of the Chicago 7 Trial makes for an interesting commentary on the American judicial system.
Keywords: 1960s, abuse-of-power, anti-authority, anti-conformity, art, conspiracy, counter-culture, courtroom, independent-film, justiceGenres: Drama,
Hoffman, Abbie Filmography
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Abbie Hoffman
ALBUMS
- Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm released: 2009
- Wake Up America! released:
- Sound Bites From the Counter Culture released:
Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm
Released 2009- Handsome Johnny
- Freedom (Motherless Child)
- Choppity Choppity (Spoken Word)
- Look Out
- Two Worlds
- Jennifer
- And When It's Over
- Smile
- There Goes Marilyn (Spoken Word)
- Hang on to a Dream
- Simple Song of Freedom
- Flat Blue Acid (Spoken Word)
- Raga Puriya Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital
- Momma Momma
- Beautiful People
- Birthday of the Sun
- Coming Into Los Angeles
- Wheel of Fortune
- Every Hand in the Land
- All You Funny People (Spoken Word)
