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RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS

The story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble.
She spoke truth to power for over four decades - and the gal was funny!
Saturday 28 March | Picture House | Doors 4:30 PM ​Session 5:00 PM
Director: Janice Engel | 2019 | USA | 93 mins | 12A | Documentary
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The story of media firebrand Molly Ivins who took on corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing. Molly was intimidatingly brilliant and quintessentially Texan - six-foot tall, politically left in a right-wing state and unabashedly brash in her in/famously lauded political assessments. A workaholic, she traded conventional relationships and intimacy for beer, a solid typewriter and boots made for muckraking - dedicating four decades of her signature, droll wit to tackling corruption and defending free speech. Her words "Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and to wreck a country" have proved prescient. Now it's up to us to raise hell. ​

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DIRECTOR: JANICE ENGEL

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Director's statement
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Six plus years ago, my soon-to-be producing partner, James Egan, told me to go see this one woman play “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins” starring Kathleen Turner. So I did, the last week it was running in LA. I was knocked out by who Molly Ivins was, how she spoke and who she so brilliantly skewered. Both James and I could not believe there had never been anything done on Molly Ivins so we jumped in full throttle and here we are six plus years later.

As I dug into Molly’s life, practically living in her archives at the Briscoe Center for American Studies at the University of Texas, her friends, family and colleagues took me in and shared incredible stories and nuggets of this larger than life, warm-hearted, fantastically funny and brilliant woman who was an equal opportunity satirist and a serious political wonk who was absolutely prescient.

 

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