Let's Get Frank

Anyone looking for a straightforward profile of Congressman Barney Frank, the honorable and openly gay gentleman from Massachusetts who became one of Bill Clinton's most outspoken supporters during the president's 1998 impeachment hearings, might be a little disappointed with Bart Everly's 75-minute documentary. Instead of constructing the usual A&E-style biography, Everly chooses to focus to Frank's involvement in the House Judiciary hearings, proceedings which in many ways serve as a mirror for Frank's own at times troubled tenure in Congress. So while the facts of Frank's actual political career tend to fall by the wayside, Everly treats us to an insightful look a...