''Get Me Roger Stone'' is a 2017 American
documentary film written and directed by Dylan Bank,
Daniel DiMauro and
Morgan Pehme. The film explores the life and career of
Republican political strategist and lobbyist
Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to
Donald Trump. The film was released on
Netflix on May 12, 2017.
Background
Bank, DiMauro and Pehme began filming with Roger Stone in late 2011 after Pehme had met Stone at a political function. Inspired by a ''
New Yorker'' article by writer
Jeffrey Toobin, the filmmakers embarked on a five-year journey to make a documentary about Stone in order to tell the story of his transformative effect on modern politics–which reaches its climax in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump to the
Presidency of the United States of America
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Release
The film premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2017, to critical acclaim. ''
Entertainment Weekly'' called it a "staggering, shock-to-the-system political documentary." ''
The Atlantic'' described it as "an incisive portrait of how Stone's brand of dirty tricks -- in which the only motivating factor in politics is to win -- came to dominate the current state of disarray." The film was released worldwide on
Netflix on May 12, 2017.
Reception
''Get Me Roger Stone'' has an 88% approval rating on
Rotten Tomatoes, based on 32 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "As informative as it is entertaining, ''Get Me Roger Stone'' offers a close-up look at the right-wing gadfly who helped shape the 2016 presidential election."
Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
The ''
Los Angeles Times'' hailed it as "endlessly fascinating," and ''
Variety'' as "lively, fun, sickening and essential." ''
RogerEbert.com
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'' proclaimed "as for examining the pathologies on the right side of the spectrum, it's hard to imagine any film this year will surpass the astonishing Netflix production ''Get Me Roger Stone''."
Participants
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Roger Stone
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Donald Trump
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Paul Manafort
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Jeffrey Toobin
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Jane Mayer
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Alex Jones
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Tucker Carlson
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Wayne Barrett
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Michael Caputo
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Matt Labash
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Harry Siegel
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Biography
Siegel is a lifelong resident of the Brooklyn area of New York City. He graduated from Brandeis University, Siegel worked at ''The New York Sun'' as an editorial writer an ...
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Timothy Stanley
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Charlie Black
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Biography
Black graduated from University of Maryland in 1970 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee the same year. His first c ...
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Mike Murphy
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References
External links
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* {{Rotten Tomatoes, get_me_roger_stone
2017 films
2017 documentary films
American documentary films
Biographical documentary films
Documentary films about American politics
Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Netflix original documentary films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films