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Directed by | Dinesh D'Souza John Sullivan |
Written by | Dinesh D'Souza |
Produced by | Dinesh D'Souza Gerald R. Molen |
Starring | Dinesh D'Souza |
Music by | Bryan E. Miller |
Distributed by | Lionsgate Films |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $11,421,052[1] |
America is a 2014 documentary film based on a book by Dinesh D'Souza exploring his concept of what the world might look like without America and critically examining some of the frequent rhetorical complaints about the country.[2] D'Souza executive produced and co-directed with John Sullivan. Gerald R. Molen also produced.[3]
Cast
- Dinesh D'Souza – himself
- Don Taylor – President Abraham Lincoln
- Michelle Swink – Mary Todd Lincoln
- Josh Bonzie – Frederick Douglass
- Janitta Swain – Madame C. J. Walker
- Rett Terrell – Alexis de Toqueville
- Russell W. Reed – Actor at Ford's Theatre
- John Koopman – George Washington
- Tina Fortune – Hispanic worker
- Casey Allen – Crew member
- Rodney Luis Aquino – Hernan Cortes
- Joey Arguello – East Indian
- Michael D. Arite – Major Henry Rathbone
- Oscar Azul – Officer
- Andrew Baker – Lucayan Indian
- Chad Baker – Gustave de Beaumont
- Katy Baker – Audience member at Lincoln-Douglas debate
- Diana Baracaldo – Lucayan Indian
- Mateo Baracaldo – Lucayan Indian
- Chris Barber – Middle Eastern Sheik
- Crystal Barragan – East Indian Lucayan Indian
- Brian Rubright – Priest
- Rich Bentz – Saul D. Alinsky
Release and box office
The film was put in wide release on July 2. It finished #11 in the weekend box office for July 4 through 6 grossing $2,743,753[4] for a total gross of $5,352,705 after its opening weekend in wide release.[5] The film did not perform as well as D'Souza's earlier film 2016: Obama's America,[6] but by its second weekend of wide release it had become the seventh highest grossing political documentary of all time.[7] Its box office receipts declined by 12.8% in its second wide release weekend from its opening weekend, while the number of screens the movie was shown on was unchanged at 1,105. It dropped one place to #12 in the box office and increased its total gross to $8,211,791.[8] In its third weekend in wide release it retained its #12 ranking, with the number of screens dropping to 1,030 and a 29.9% drop in box office receipts. Its total gross increased to $11,421,052.[9]
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 9% approval rating, based on the reviews of 22 critics.[10] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 14 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[11] Movie-goer polls conducted by the market research firm CinemaScore showed an average grade from people who viewed the movie as A+ on an A+ to F scale.[12] According to Dave Urbanski of TheBlaze, this A+ rating was an "incredibly rare grade" from viewers.[13][14]
Writing for RogerEbert.com, Peter Sobczynski wrote "My job is to analyze how the film works in cinematic terms and on that basis, D'Souza and co-director John Sullivan...have failed miserably. It looks terrible, it plods along with all the verve of a PowerPoint presentation, the occasional dramatic recreations are exceptionally cheesy and the interview footage is so needlessly over-edited that you get the feeling that something may have gotten changed around in the cutting room.".[15]
After receiving a poor review from Reuters headlined "To celebrate the Fourth of July, don’t go see this movie", where the author wrote "I wouldn’t ordinarily dignify such nonsense with a column, but America the movie exemplifies everything that's wrong about the American political conversation these days, rich with examples from both left and right."[16] Gerald R. Molen responded, "I'm used to having my movies critiqued, but to have a reporter actually tell people not to attend a movie is a first. This is the movie world's version of voter suppression efforts in politics. Shameful."[17]
References
- ^ a b c "America (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- ^ D'Souza, Dinesh (2014). America.
- ^ "America: Imagine the World Without Her". Americathemovie.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=27&p=.htm
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=america2014.htm
- ^ Dinesh D'Souza's Doc America Can't Match Box Office Lightning Of His 2016 Obama's America The Wrap.com
- ^ "Documentary - Political". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=28&p=.htm
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=29&p=.htm
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/america_imagine_a_world_without_her/
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/movie/america
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3869&p=.htm
- ^ From 1982 to 2011 only 52 movies received an A+ score from CinemaScore. The majority of films surveyed by CinemaScore receive A- to B- ratings. See: "Here's the List of Legendary Films Dinseh D'Souza's America Now Sits Next to Because of the Incredibly Rare Grade Viewers Gave It". The Blaze
- ^ For a listing of the 52 films that have received A+ ratings, see "Why CinemaScore Matters for Box Office". The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/america-2014
- ^ http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/02/to-celebrate-the-fourth-of-july-dont-go-see-this-movie/
- ^ http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/07/03/reuters-blogger-boycott-america
External links
- Official website
- America: Imagine the World Without Her at IMDb
- synopsis at AllMovieInvalid ID.