Jonathan Demme's leisurely documentary is as much about the thorny subject of the 39th president's 2006 book
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid as it is a portrait of the peanut farmer/nuclear physicist turned professional humanitarian from Plains, Georgia.
Carter, who was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," began pursuing his humanitarian concerns full-time after he failed to win a second term in the White House. Carter eventually also began writing books addressing high-profile ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
120 mins