Weiner Page #3

Synopsis: Serving seven consecutive terms, Anthony Weiner, good friends with and political allies to the Clintons, was once a highly respected member of Congress from New York City, he seen as a man sticking up for the every day person. That all changed in June, 2011 when he was forced to resign in disgrace after admitting that he did tweet lewd "headless" photos of himself from his public Twitter account to women he met online, and that it was not the work of a hacker or that the photos were of someone else. At the time, his wife Huma Abedin, herself a key aide to Hillary Clinton, was pregnant with their first child, she who decided to stand by her man. Two years later with Abedin still by his side, Weiner tries to resurrect his political career in a run for New York City mayor. He realizes that he has an uphill battle not only because of the known previously tweeted photos, but that there are other lewd photos from that era that may also come to light during the campaign. Regardless of the 201
Genre: Documentary
Production: Motto Pictures
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 8 wins & 52 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
R
Year:
2016
96 min
$1,675,196
112 Views


You did some very what?

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.

Very, very regrettable things

that I have apologized for

and I'm gonna be spending

a lot of time, I think

on the campaign trail

apologizing for.

Okay, so why... why

are you hiding today?

I... I'm having conversations

on the telephone.

What do you mean hiding, Andrea?

Hi, Michael,

it's Barbara Morgan.

Hi, Andrew, it's Barbara Morgan.

Hi, Azzi, it's Barbara Morgan.

I'm gonna put you

on speaker now, okay?

Hi, Michael. Hi, Jill.

Hi, Jennifer, how are you?

How do we know that this

behavior is over?

You put Huma and Jordan

in the video.

Why was that decision made?

Your brother said

that your father

never hugged you.

Huma and I looked at one

and another and said

"You know, we don't

wanna be living

in a defensive crouch anymore."

Families get through things.

I don't begrudge citizens

wanting to ask me

about the mistakes

that I've made

but what I'm gonna try

to talk about

is the issues facing

New York City

the middle class and people

struggling to make it.

Every dollar available

for salaries

is being eaten up

by healthcare costs.

There are good bike lanes

and there are bad bike lanes.

The controversy

over Stop-and-Frisk

has been over

how it's been used.

- I don't think anyone...

- Wait, wait, wait.

Uh... are more women

going to come forward?

Do we have more

to look forward to?

There was some talk of going

away to a rehab program...

What does what happened there say about

your fitness to run New York City?

"The saga of, of the

transgressions of Anthony Weiner

"former youngest ever member

of the City Council

"former seven-term Congressman

from Brooklyn and Queens

"preening self promoter

"who never met a camera,

television or smart phone

"he didn't glam on to.

"And at this writing,

current candidate

"for the Democratic nomination

for mayor of New York City

"is remarkable for many reasons.

"Chief among them is what

the protagonist of the tale

"did not, as far as we know, do.

"He did not commit adultery.

"He did not break up a marriage

"his own or anyone else's.

"He didn't employ the services

of a prostitute.

"He did not stalk.

He did not misuse public funds.

"He did not grope or talk dirty

to subordinates or anyone else.

"He did not have any

inappropriate contact

"or any physical contact

with any person.

"He and his partners in sin

have never been

in the same room

at the same time."

Vacant space.

All of our offices

are vacant space.

- Hi.

- This is actually kinda nice.

Yeah.

We are in the market

for, um, office space.

Many years since I was here

Good afternoon,

Weiner for mayor.

On the street

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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