Seeing Allred (2018)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I went into this doc with trepidation because I had always considered Gloria Allred to be a brash, loud-mouthed feminist, who had nothing to say that didn't make her money.Unlike at least one reviewer here, I can admit to being wrong AFTER actually watching the film. Gloria Allred is a fighter, and yes, she does appear on TV a lot, but there is a deeper purpose in it. She is laser focused on women's rights and getting her message out to the general public, so that change can be achieved.The documentary takes us through Gloria's fight and even some of her early life, but you can tell by watching that she doesn't really consider herself part of the story. As I said, LASER-focused on other women.To be honest, it's stunning to me that Allred is still very necessary in 2018 America, but she clearly is. Anyone who can look objectively at what's happened in and to the country in the past two years knows that. There are some that won't see it and that's to their detriment. Truth truly does set us free!So, no matter what you currently feel about Gloria Allred, watch this doc. It was well worth my time, is well put together, and I can almost guarantee that if your opinion of her has been formed from listening to others, your opinion will be changed.

This documentary explores Allred's many supporters and detractors alike. It is an honest portrayal of an attorney who has made it her life's work to support those who have been wronged by society.Incredible film. Saw it at Sundance and the audience jumped to their feet in a standing ovation when it ended. Not to be missed.

Far too reverential a treatment for one of the most monstrous people in American public life, a rabid ideologue grown wealthy and famous through the exploitation of the real and imagined suffering of others. The film is well made in every department but asks none of the difficult questions you'd want to see asked, never once scratching the surface, accepting the narrative and worldview presented by Allred as the only one possible, and so ends up being little more than a journalistic puff piece and largely pointless. The only questioning voices came from three-second long clips of Allred's cartoon depictions in The Simpsons and South Park.In 2018, the presentation of oneself as a victim is the surest path to power, money, and fawning adoration, and Allred has this down herself impeccably. But both on an individual and societal level, this is a terrible way to live, and the identity politics she is ticking the boxes of at every opportunity throughout this documentary is eating away at both our culture and our future like a cancer.There is a great documentary waiting to be made addressing the hysteria and insanity western society is presently consumed by, and the role played by Allred and her ilk in both initiating and exacerbating that hysteria, but this sadly is not it.

Absolutely fantastic documentary. Showing the truth, not the media bias, behind this woman's remarkable story. If this does not resonate or appeal to you in some way, I can't help but question your agenda, or even heart and mind. Someone who fights for truth, humanity and justice in the way Gloria Allred does, all while being continually misrepresented and misinterpreted, deserves your utmost attention and this film brings you a golden opportunity to really 'see' Allred for who really she is and exactly what she stands for.The idea that she is a woman who does what she does to only pursue fame and money is complete propaganda and nonsense - anyone who falls for such fallacy is surely small-minded and fearful of what she stands for. She is an activist. And a brilliant one at that.