''Get Me Roger Stone'' is a 2017 American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

written and directed by Dylan Bank,

Daniel DiMauro Daniel DiMauro is an American documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. In 2020, DiMauro directed ''The Swamp'', an HBO Documentary Films documentary about dysfunction in the United States Congress. The film follows three Republican Congressm ...

and

Morgan Pehme Morgan Pehme (born May 5, 1978 in New York City) is an American filmmaker and journalist. Background Pehme's father was journalist Kalev Pehme. On his paternal side, his grandfather, Karl Pehme, was a sculptor from Estonia. His grandmother, Gu ...

. The film explores the life and career of

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political strategist and lobbyist

Roger Stone Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Rea ...

, a longtime advisor to

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...

. The film was released on

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on May 12, 2017.

Background

Bank, DiMauro and Pehme began filming with Roger Stone in late 2011 after Pehme had met Stone at a political function. Inspired by a ''

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'' article by writer

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, the filmmakers embarked on a five-year journey to make a documentary about Stone in order to tell the story of his transformative effect on modern politics–which reaches its climax in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States of America.

Release

The film premiered at the

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on April 23, 2017, to critical acclaim. ''

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'' called it a "staggering, shock-to-the-system political documentary." ''

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'' described it as "an incisive portrait of how Stone's brand of dirty tricks -- in which the only motivating factor in politics is to win -- came to dominate the current state of disarray." The film was released worldwide on

on May 12, 2017.

Reception

''Get Me Roger Stone'' has an 88% approval rating on

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, based on 32 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "As informative as it is entertaining, ''Get Me Roger Stone'' offers a close-up look at the right-wing gadfly who helped shape the 2016 presidential election."

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gives the film a weighted average score of 75 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The ''

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'' hailed it as "endlessly fascinating," and ''

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'' as "lively, fun, sickening and essential." '' RogerEbert.com'' proclaimed "as for examining the pathologies on the right side of the spectrum, it's hard to imagine any film this year will surpass the astonishing Netflix production ''Get Me Roger Stone''."

Participants

* Paul Manafort *

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* Harry Siegel * Timothy Stanley * Charlie Black *

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References

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