Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Closed CaptioningBrigitte Berman
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Plot Summary
An intimate look at the outspoken, flamboyant founder of the Playboy empire. With humor and insight, the film captures Hefner's fierce battles with the government, the religious right and militant feminists. Rare footage and compelling interviews with a remarkable who's who of 20th Century American pop culture, present a brilliant and entertaining snapshot of the life of an extraordinary man and the controversies that surrounded him.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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60%- Reviews Counted: 45
- Fresh: 27
- Rotten: 18
- Average Rating: 6.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The film is too busy promoting St. Hugh to offer serious discussion of his life.
Fresh: A pop history lesson that holds you, but it's no deeper than an E! True Hollywood Story.
Rotten: This is not a probing examination of Hef in all his complexity.
Fresh: Berman's goal was to reveal "the other side of Hugh Hefner that had not yet been portrayed in any of the prior documentaries about him." In that context, the film's balance is appropriate; considered in a vacuum, however, it is almost a canonization.
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- $9.99
- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 2010
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