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Gerrymandering

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Filmmaker Jeff Reichert examines how politicians manipulate the outcome of elections by redrawing voting districts.

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Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle Rated: 3/4 Nov 6, 2010 Full Review Mark Feeney Boston Globe The film's basic premise -- why can't politics be a reasonable, logical enterprise (like, say, making an indie documentary?) -- is at odds with the realities not just of the American political process but also human nature. Rated: 2/4 Nov 4, 2010 Full Review Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post It jumps around from California to Texas to Iowa to Louisiana and back, quite literally all over the map, with lots of numbingly repetitive cartographic visuals. Rated: 2/4 Oct 29, 2010 Full Review Willie Waffle WaffleMovies.com Reichert has to come up with some way to draw us in, and does so, for the most part, with some very entertaining, shocking and dastardly tales of gerrymandering to the extreme Rated: 3/4 Oct 28, 2010 Full Review Christopher Campbell Cinematical The film's final statement is literally, "end gerrymandering,' which is hardly non-partisan itself. Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 24, 2010 Full Review Annlee Ellingson Moving Pictures Magazine Reichert for the most part succeeds with a subject that's hard to get excited about. Oct 19, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Excellent way to learn about gerrymandering, how it robs voters of choice and contributes to corruption, collusion and apathy. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review walter m "Gerrymandering" is an uneven documentary look into the eponymous practice of unfairly redistricting in order to favor one political party over another, that is exacerbated by one party simply giving up and not running any candidates in that district anymore. Fortunately, there is an innovative way to combat this. In 2010, Californians get to vote on Prop 11 which proposes taking redistricting out of the politicians' hands and putting it in the hands of ordinary citizens. As then Governor Schwarzenegger eloquently put it, it takes the conflict of interest out of the whole equation.(Yeah, I was shocked, too.) The rest of the documentary does not work nearly as well, even though showing the shape of a representative's district when he is being interviewed is a very nice tough. Outside of wisely having Lani Guinier testify, most of the evidence the documentary employs is on the anecdotal side when instead it should have used a clear timeline in showing how gerrymandering has been used to disenfranchise minorities over the years.(The bit about Martha's Vineyard threatening to secede from Massachusetts is hilarious, if untintentionally so.) And like most movies, "Gerrymandering" could have definitely used more armadillo racing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member OK political documentary that tells the audience about how political redistricting works. No great shakes but pretty interesting at times. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Another issue documentary that takes an interesting topic and just rehashes the same two or three points ad infinitum. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Jeff Reichert

Director

Lawrence Abramson

Executive Producer

Dan O'Meara

Producer

Jeff Reichert

Producer

Chris Romano

Producer

Chad Troutwine

Producer

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Movie Info

Synopsis Filmmaker Jeff Reichert examines how politicians manipulate the outcome of elections by redrawing voting districts.
Director
Jeff Reichert
Producer
Dan O'Meara, Jeff Reichert, Chris Romano, Chad Troutwine
Distributor
Green Film Company
Production Co
Green Film Company
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 15, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 3, 2017
Runtime
1h 21m