‘From the Hood to the Holler’ Review: Charles Booker Documentary Chronicles a Passionate Campaign
thewrap.comsundown town. The film tumbles giddily though a montage of late-breaking endorsements, from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (truly the model for what Booker is doing in Kentucky), Elizabeth Warren and Hollywood power players like Ava DuVernay, Kerry Washington, Regina King and Kentucky’s own Jennifer Lawrence.
Some of the transitions are a bit stilted, and the film’s present-tense presentation feels awkward (the news itself is a spoiler).
We know how the primary ends, but it is a nail-biter to the very end, nevertheless, from a last-minute injunction called in to beg judges to allow polls to stay open longer for those voters caught in traffic to the weeklong process of counting the mail-in votes.
The drama provided in the last hours of Booker’s campaign is a true gift to the film’s climax, including an emotional and teary speech that he delivers to the voters on election night.
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