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11/4/08

  NR HD

Jeff Deutchman

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Plot Summary

Weaving together footage recorded throughout the world on the day Obama was elected President, this verite documentary explores how people choose to live through 'history.'

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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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33%
  • Reviews Counted: 6
  • Fresh: 2
  • Rotten: 4
  • Average Rating: 5.3/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Rotten: Only few moments that are genuinely touching. – Alissa Simon, Variety, Oct 29, 2010

Rotten: While Deutchman aimed to make a participatory documentary, the end result is, in the main, an Obamathon of hipsters from Chicago, Austin, and Brooklyn stumping for change and toasting the 44th president. – Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 29, 2010

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Customer Reviews

Personal and immense

Much more than a love-letter to a pretty incredible event, Jeff Deutchman's 11/4/08 interrogates and explores a moment of history from a human perspective, creating needed space for unrehearsed and emotional moments to enter into the historical record. It feels young, it feels energized, and it feels close - this is as worthy a documentation of how history looks as anything out there.

great film, historic

I think some of the Rotten Tomatoes reviews miss the point of this movie. There is no better impartial video record of the day American elected its first African American President, in my opinion as one of the people who sent the director clips from that day. It really is like a Rorschach test - you see what you want to see - and how you see this movie will probably be highly influenced by whatever happens to be in the news that day/week/month. Is Obama up? Then the movie will feel like an "Obamanation" or a celebration of victory. Is Obama down? Then the movie will feel nostalgic and maybe naive. Because of that, it's really a genuinely interesting, provocative documentary, not propagandistic and some reviewers suspect, and definitely not a waste of anyone's time. I highly recommend it.

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