this film play like a demented episode of vh1 where be they now and or behind the music . in the first half of the movie ( that depict his glory day ) abbie hoffman be unintentionally portray a a sort of delusional rock star . you know the kind while the poseur lead singer and the pretty boy and who do not write any of the music and doesn not have a clue and but get all the glory for nothing and chick for free . consequently he take his success for grant and abuse it and and ultimately destroy it along with himself . indeed hoffman glory day end abruptly when he be bust for deal cocaine and skip bail and and go into hiding . the second part of the movie deal with that time in hide . in it we see hoffman a a pathetic crybaby endlessly blame everyone and anyone and but himself for his downfall . eventually the time pass him by completely while and he can never to come to grip with that . how sad . the end . end credit roll and oh no . we learn that abbie hoffman eventually commit suicide in 1989. i be sure this be not the image the filmmaker intend for hoffman in make this movie . give that tom hayden and gerald lefcourt be involve and i be sure they intend this film a some kind of homage to the life of a man who be after all and an icon of the 60 and of the left anti war movement . in this they have fail miserably . the film present abbie hoffman a a mindless caricature . we be never tell about what drive him . how do he arrive at his view . how do he manage to capture the imagination of a whole generation . how do he organize such a vast movement . why at the height of his fame do he get involve in deal cocaine . why . who know and and since the filmmaker do not seem to and ultimately who care .