WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?

Director: Matt Tyrnauer

137, PG-13

Cast: Ken Auletta, Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Sam Roberts, Anne Roiphe, Steve Rubell, Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Barbara Walters.

 

It has often been said that lawyer Roy Cohn influenced the “empty vessels” around him to further is nefarious worldview. One of those empty vessels was Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose Cold War demagoguery won comparisons to the Salem Witch trials. Another, some might say, was his protégé Donald J. Trump. But aside from the basic facts – and his scary/funny appearance in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America – few know much about the ultimate behind the scenes provocateur. Enter this chilling documentary on Cohn’s childhood and the manipulative misdeeds of his adult years. With brilliant editing of archival TV and newsreel clips of Cohn and his associates, you feel as if you are living in his world of deception, persecution and amorality. And maybe you are…

“Flamboyant, terrifying, and pointedly timely.” Ella Taylor, NPR