A near perfect manifestation of radical, DIY media intervention, the video doc "Horns and Halos" could not be more timely just as we hunker down for untold years of wartime sacrifice and imperialist self-rationalization, here is a David fable told by the barbarians at the Bush dynasty gate." 
- Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

"Here is a rich tale of our times, very well told with an appropriate minimum of means." 
- David Kehr, New York Times

"dark surprises...emotionally complex"
- David Ansen, Newsweek

"Fascinating thoughtful and deeply affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people."
- Michael OSullivan, The Washington Post

"Powerful and revelatory"
- John Anderson, Newsday

"What a story" 
- Brian De Palma 

"funny, maddening and ultimately shocking.."
- Ben Kaplan, New York Magazine

"Reaches out to anyone interested in politics, publishing, or the uneasy marriage between big money and mass communication."
- David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor

"Tragic" 
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times 

"This documentary is a rolling masterclass on the disturbing complicity of media, money and mendacity."
- Matthew Tempest, The Guardian

"The filmmakers uncover how the tough journalistic and business decisions of people under stress -- at times influenced by ego, greed and the genuine passion to expose the "truth" -- can have a very human,tragic toll."
- Tim LaTorre, Indiewire

HORNS AND HALOS captures the unlikely connection of three men - an ex-con turned celebrity biographer, a janitor cum underground publisher, and U.S. President George W. Bush - whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a controversial book.

In October 1999, an article appeared in the New York Times indicating that publisher St. Martins Press had recalled FORTUNATE SON, the first published biography of George W. Bush, when it was revealed that the author, J.H. Hatfield, served five years in prison for solicitation of capital murder. At the time of its recall, the book was a bestseller, no doubt due to the books allegations that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession in 1972.

Several weeks later, small underground imprint Soft Skull Press, led by the self-styled “punk of publishing” Sander Hicks, announced that it would re-publish the book. They began operating out of a makeshift office in the basement of the building where he divides his time as the super.

Set against the backdrop of the fierce 2000 presidential campaign, Horns and Halos follows Hatfield and Hicks as they battle lawyers, media and mounting debt to get FORTUNATE SON back on shelves. After facing a lawsuit, a thrashingon 60 Minutes and bankruptcy, Soft Skull attempts to make one last splash at the Book Expo of America. Hatfield reluctantly reveals his sources for the book’s cocaine allegations, and the fallout is explosive.

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