American Gadfly

[Available Jan. 4 on various VOD platforms.] Skye Wallin's engaging, insightful, behind-the-scenes, 96-minute political documentary that chronicles the 2020 presidential campaign of retired 89-year-old Alaskan U.S. senator Mike Gravel when ambitious and inspiring high school students, including operations director Elijah Emery, campaign manager David Oks, treasurer Henry Magowan, and chief of staff Henry Turner Williams, encourage him to run in order to highlight important issues that often get swept under the rug and work diligently to qualify him for the Democratic debates, and it consists of candid commentary by wife Whitney Stewart Gravel, journalists David Weigel and Jamie Keiles, senator Bernie Sanders, Henry William's mother Anne Williams, digital strategist Alex Chang, Sanders' senior staffer Keane Bhatt, high school student Miranda Luiz, presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and author Marianne Williamson, Tulsi Gabbard supporter Niko House, presidential candidate and former tech executive Andrew Yang, and former senator Rick Santorum.
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