Freak Power

“It’s time in this country for somebody to run on some kind of realistic program rather than to get into this hypocritical gibberish that has characterized politics in this country for I don’t know how long and still does in most parts of it.”

Hunter S. Thompson, 1970

Film Overview

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.

We follow Hunter as he builds his own political movement, which grows from a local sheriff’s race to a national media sensation.