Boston Globe

Dec. 26, 2004

Most overlooked political documentary: Filmmaker Bart Everly trailed Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank for two years, including President Clinton’s impeachment hearings,

and the result was Lets Get Frank, an entertaining behind-the-scenes tour of the sausage factory that is Congress. Frank survived his own sex scandal in 1989, and that helped him defend Clinton

fearlessly during the hearings. In this film, which screened at the Coolidge, Frank turns his nimble wit on the prosecutor Ken Starr, committee chairman Henry Hyde, and other Republicans,

at one point jokingly comparing the impeachment process to professional wrestling: We’re going to grunt and groan, but its fixed.

 

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