Movie Mania

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013)

R87 minDocumentary

5.9 / 10

18 votes

Budget: $300KRevenue: NA

Movie poster for Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

Long before O'Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, and Mort's cigarette smoke always "in your face," The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as "3-D television," "rock and roll without the music." Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the '80s and ultimately its most notorious agitator.

Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger

Written by Daniel A. Miller