A haven for the moviegoer who just wants to escape awhile from any and all Republicans. It recounts, through archival footage and up-to-date interviews with classmates and comrades, the young Kerry's transformation from war hero to war protestor. Essentially no more than an extended commercial for the Democratic presidential candidate (though director George Butler has good credentials as a documentarian: Pumping Iron, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, et al.), it nonetheless can boast, with the best of commercials, some effective manipulation of emotion, helped along on the soundtrack by such voices of the times as Dylan, Lennon, Hendrix, Richie Havens, and Crosby, Stills, Nash. It takes you back; it makes you remember. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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