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2014 American film
America: Imagine the World Without Her
Directed byDinesh D'Souza
John Sullivan
Written byDinesh D'Souza
Produced byDinesh D'Souza
Gerald R. Molen
StarringDinesh D'Souza
Music byBryan E. Miller
Distributed byLionsgate Films
Release date
  • June 27, 2014 (2014-06-27)
Running time103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$8,211,791

America: Imagine the World Without Her is a 2014 documentary based on a book by Dinesh D'Souza. D'Souza executive produced and co-directed with John Sullivan.

Cast

Release & box office

The film was put in wide release on July 2. It finished #11 in the weekend box office for July 4 through 6 grossing $2,743,753 for a total gross of $5,352,705 after its opening weekend in wide release. The film did not perform as well as D'Souza's earlier film 2016: Obama's America, but by its second weekend of wide release it had become the seventh highest grossing political documentary of all time. Its box office receipts declined slightly by 12.8% in its second wide release weekend from its opening weekend, while the number of screens the movie was shown on was unchanged at 1,105. It dropped one place to #12 in the box office and increased its total gross to $8,211,791.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 11% approval rating, based on the reviews of 18 critics.For example, writing for RogerEbert.com, Peter Sobczynski wrote that the movie is "the cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited "facts" that you receive from an uncle".However, on Metacritic, the film has a score of 14 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend revealed the average grade cinemagoers who viewed the movie was A+ on an A+ to F scale. Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro dismissed the critics, saying, “The critics who judge film are wildly left. That’s obvious from their glowing reviews for any leftist film with even the mildest touch of art; it’s glaringly obvious from their reviews of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, America…..It is absurd to have movie critics critiquing the politics of documentaries professionally; they seem unable to separate their artistic sensibilities from their political ones. Conservatives are routinely accused of not having enough a sense of humor when they criticize Jon Stewart as a partisan hack (which he is), yet leftist critics are taken at face value when they dismiss D’Souza’s work because they hate his politics.”


After receiving a poor review from Reuters entitled To celebrate the Fourth of July, don’t go see this movie, where the author wrote "I wouldn’t ordinarily dignify such nonsense with a column, but America the movie exemplifies everything that’s wrong about the American political conversation these days, rich with examples from both left and right." Gerald R. Molen responded stating, "I'm used to having my movies critiqued, but to have a reporter actually tell people not to attend a movie is a first. This is the movie world's version of voter suppression efforts in politics. Shameful. But most Americans don't like to be told what to do by elite journalists and I have faith that it will only motivate Americans to go to their local theater."

References

  1. ^ "America (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  2. D'Souza, Dinesh (2014). America.
  3. Leydon, Joe (June 27, 2014). "Film Review: 'America: Imagine the World Without Her'". Variety. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  4. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=27&p=.htm
  5. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=america2014.htm
  6. Dinesh D'Souza's Doc America Can't Match Box Office Lightning Of His 2016 Obama's America The Wrap.com
  7. "Documentary - Political". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  8. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2014&wknd=28&p=.htm
  9. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/america_imagine_a_world_without_her/
  10. http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/america-2014
  11. http://www.metacritic.com/movie/america
  12. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3869&p=.htm
  13. Shapiro, Ben (July 15, 2014). "7 Movies Critics Like Better Than D'Souza's 'America'". Breitbart. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  14. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/07/03/reuters-blogger-boycott-america
  15. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/02/to-celebrate-the-fourth-of-july-dont-go-see-this-movie/

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