Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
94 min
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.
- Release date
- October 23, 2020
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Gustavo Santaolalla
Cast
- Hunter S. Thompson as Self
- Ed Bastian as Self - Interviewee
- Bob Braudis as Self - Interviewee
- Joe DiSalvo as Self - Interviewee
- Joe Edwards as Self - Interviewee
- Travis Fulton as Self - Interviewee
- William Kennedy as Self
- Ralph Steadman as Self - Interviewee
- Alex Sweetman as Self - Interviewee
- Jann Wenner as Self - Interviewee
Crew
- Ajax Phillips · Director
- Daniel Joseph Watkins · Director
- Ajax Phillips · Writer
- Daniel Joseph Watkins · Writer
- Mimi Polk Gitlin · Producer
- Ajax Phillips · Producer
- Angus Wall · Producer
- Daniel Joseph Watkins · Producer
- Gustavo Santaolalla · Composer
- Lucian Read · Cinematographer
- Karl Wolfgang · Cinematographer
- Tony Prikryl · Editor
- Patrick Welch · Editor
- Will Znidaric · Editor