Enjoyable documentary on one of the most important Hollywood moguls of the 1990s and 2000s. Nothing in it will surprise anyone who's read Down and Dirty Pictures (whose author, Peter Biskind, pops up here). He's a great talker, bully, yeller; he's very passionate, loves film, loves a fight. It doesn't mention anything about rape or sexual assault.
Talking heads include Peter Bart, George Hickenlooper, Martin Scorsese. Weinstein apparently tried to stop this film being made which was a waste of time - it's not very mean, it's kind of admiring. It does say he became a spent force from the mid 2000s onwards but warns people not to count him out. I'm surprised Kevin Smith didn't appear in it.
Plenty of footage from the films and interviews on red carpets; there's a clip from a film Weinstein directed.
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