Marshall Curry's sharp, Academy Award-nominated documentary about Newark city councilman Cory Booker's 2002 campaign to unseat incumbent mayor Sharpe James would be hilariously absurd if it weren't tragic: Newark is one of the most troubled cities in the U.S. and Booker's story is one of political idealism poorly matched against dirty deeds worthy of G. Gordon Liddy himself. Raised by two Civil Rights activists in Harrington Park, a well-to-do New Jersey suburb, Booker went to Stanford University on a football scholarship, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a law degree from Yale. He followed his conscience to the Brick Terrace housing project,...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins