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2014 American film
America
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$11,421,052

America is a 2014 documentary film based on a book by Dinesh D'Souza exploring his concept of what the world might look like without America and critically examining some of the frequent rhetorical complaints about the country. D'Souza was executive producer and co-directed with John Sullivan. Gerald R. Molen also produced.

Cast

Release and 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 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. In its third weekend in wide release it retained its #12 ranking, with the number of screens dropping to 1,030 and a 29.9% drop in box office receipts. Its total gross increased to $11,421,052.

Critical response

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The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes listed the film as receiving a 9% approval rating, based on a count of 22 reviews. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film has a score of 14 out of 100, based on 11 critics (indicating "overwhelming dislike"). Movie-goer polls conducted by the market research firm CinemaScore showed an average grade from people who viewed the movie as A+ on an A+ to F scale.

A reviewer at RogerEbert.com gave the film one star, writing " looks terrible, it plods along with all the verve of a PowerPoint presentation, the occasional dramatic recreations are exceptionally cheesy and the interview footage is so needlessly over-edited that you get the feeling that something may have gotten changed around in the cutting room."

Other responses

A journalist at Reuters wrote "...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: "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...."

References

  1. ^ "America (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  2. D'Souza, Dinesh (2014). America.
  3. "America: Imagine the World Without Her". Americathemovie.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  4. Weekend Box Office Results for July 4-6, 2014 - Box Office Mojo
  5. America (2014) (2014) - Box Office Mojo
  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. Weekend Box Office Results for July 11-13, 2014 - Box Office Mojo
  9. Weekend Box Office Results for July 18-20, 2014 - Box Office Mojo
  10. "America". Rotten Tomatoes. Fixster, Inc. Passionate but poorly constructed, America preaches to the choir.
  11. "America". Metacritic.com. CBS Interactive.
  12. Weekend Report: 'Transformers' Repeats On Weak Independence Day Weekend - Box Office Mojo
  13. Peter Sobczynski (July 2, 2014). Review: America, Ebert Digital, LLC
  14. Jim Gaines (July 2, 2014). "To celebrate the Fourth of July, don't see this movie". Reuters.com.
  15. Christian Toto (July 3, 2014). "Reuters Blogger: Boycott D'Souza's 'America'". Breitbart.com.

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