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Framing John DeLorean

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The extraordinary life and career of controversial automaker John DeLorean -- from his meteoric rise at General Motors Co. to his obsessive quest to build the world's best sports car.

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Stranger than fiction and just as engrossing, Framing John DeLorean tells its incredible true story in appropriately freewheeling fashion.

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Robert Daniels 812filmreviews 06/30/2019
3.5/4
The tremendous and jaw-dropping twists Framing John DeLorean takes will never cease to amaze. Go to Full Review
Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times 06/21/2019
3/4
...why not make a borderline bat-bleep crazy docu-something of a film chronicling the whole thing? Go to Full Review
Adam Graham Detroit News 06/14/2019
B+
It's both inspiring and a cautionary tale, filled with drama, intrigue, hubris, comedy and tragedy. It's an American story, and a wild one at that. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 09/27/2021
4/5
...this artful documentary captures the essence of the man and the machine... Go to Full Review
Graeme Tuckett The Post NZ 06/17/2021
Framing John DeLorean lays out the incredible tale and finds an appropriately unprecedented way into the story as well. Go to Full Review
Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media 06/02/2021
3/5
Framing John DeLorean has a fascinating figure at its core, and for the generations of people who only know his name as a prop in a Michael J. Fox film, this will fill in some gaps. Go to Full Review
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Iamwhoi M Jan 19 Why on earth anyone would purposely put the insufferable Alec Baldwin, speaking as himself, in a film about John DeLorean, I cannot fathom. I cannot tell you how much contempt I have for this idea. Do a documentary or do a TV movie of the week; but don't slap both of those together, to form a messy hodge podge like this! If good ole Alec had been left out, I would give it 4 stars. See more Tom C 07/24/2024 This film is incredible. What a innovative approach to documentary storytelling. The mashup of doc, high end scripted scenes, and behind the scenes verite with Alec and the other actors offers a great way to have this story unfold. See more Gareth v 06/15/2023 Could of done without the behind the scenes chat with the actors, but a solid doco that tries to convey what drove this man to do what he did. See more chris m 12/30/2022 I was disappointed. I expected nefarious goings on by government agencies on behalf of GM to nail the poor guy. While there was a dirt bag confidential informant and some actions that could be considered entrapment by federal investigators, no great shakes compared to the title. An overview of his life (business and personal) from Pontiac to the demise of the DMC was interesting. Interviews with his bitter, poverty striken, potty mouthed son could have been reduced. See more isla s 09/04/2022 I found this interesting in terms of the story, what happened to the company and the legal case etc. that followed, which I hadn't previously been aware of. However, I found the acted parts with Alec Baldwin portraying John DeLorean rather distracting and I didn't think it fully worked. I'd rather they use genuine library/archive footage and talking heads to discuss what happened - which, by the way, they do but the mix of that and acted scenes, reconstructions, jarred with me. I found it a bit hard to follow some of the aspects, the finer details of what happened and I wouldn't say its an especially engrossing or gripping watch but if your interested in the story, you do learn some things and also I did enjoy hearing from John's children. That aspect was insightful, how his kids reacted to what happened and their memories of things. This is a somewhat interesting documentary, which seems to be not 100% sure if it wants to be the TV documentary show it mainly is, or if it wants to somehow also be a more glitzy Hollwood drama film, which it isn't really. It doesn't really work entirely but its still ok, hence my rating. I wouldn't go out of your way to watch it though, unless your particularly keen on the subject as such. I'm still a bit unclear about quite how he was framed, frankly. See more 03/01/2022 Gosto de documentários com protagonistas ambíguos e polêmicos, aqui a dúvida é visionário ou vigarista... Basicamente John comete dois grandes erros, ao fazer duas grandes escolhas de forma completamente equivocadas, aumentar a produção de veículos defeituosos e a principal, negociar com narcotraficantes, ainda que tenha sido vítima, ao cair como isca do informante e do FBI... Como o filho bem disse depois "para mim, é uma faca de dois gumes o tempo todo, à prova de que tinha sido armado estavam lá, mas o senso comum e a realidade me dizem que ele não era o idiota, que ele devia ter suspeitado que ia dar m****" See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis The extraordinary life and career of controversial automaker John DeLorean -- from his meteoric rise at General Motors Co. to his obsessive quest to build the world's best sports car.
Director
Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
Producer
Tamir Ardon, Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce, Nick Spicer
Screenwriter
Dan Greeney, Alexandra Orton
Distributor
Sundance Selects
Production Co
9.14 Pictures, XYZ Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 7, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 10, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$145.6K
Runtime
1h 49m
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