My Son Hunter

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My Son Hunter
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Directed by Robert Davi [1]
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyVladimir Ilic
Edited byRicky Stone
Production
company
The Unreported Story Society
Distributed by Breitbart News
Release date
  • September 7, 2022 (2022-09-07) [4]
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.75 million

My Son Hunter is a 2022 American biographical comedy film directed by Robert Davi and starring Laurence Fox, Gina Carano and John James. The film centers on Hunter Biden, the son of US president Joe Biden. Since 2019, Donald Trump and his allies have accused both Bidens of corruption. [1] It is, according to The Guardian 's Catherine Shoard, the "debut fiction attempt" of documentarians Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. [5] [6] The film is being distributed by American far-right news website Breitbart News , [7] [8] and was released on September 7, 2022. [4]

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Synopsis

According to the British online newspaper The Independent , the film centers on "allegations made by Trump allies" about Hunter Biden's foreign business deals. [9] [10] The producers stated that the film depicts the alleged "business dealings and lifestyle of Hunter Biden". [11]

Cast

Development and filming

Two conservative Irish filmmakers, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, developed the film. When the film was first announced, it introduced its attempt to raise 2.5 million dollars [20] via a private crowdfunding site. The project raised over 2.5 million dollars from crowdfunding on its official site. [21] Pre-production started as early as February 2021 according to star Gina Carano. [6] The movie's crew includes Robert Davi as director, [10] and Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney as producers. [3]

Gina Carano, who played a "world-weary" secret service agent in the film stated: "The script was instantly intriguing and side achingly hilarious to me, especially after being newly exposed to the political realm in 2020. Robert Davi is someone who reached out to me as soon as I was 'canceled' in Feb. 2021. I signed on in support of him and one of my favorite humans, Laurence Fox." [11]

Production began in October 2021 in Serbia, [6] [11] [22] and lasted for four weeks. [3] [1] During filming John James, who portrayed Joe Biden, had an off-set injury and was rushed to the hospital, though he continued filming after treatment saying that "the show must go on". [16]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 67% of 6 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. [23]

Armond White of National Review said that the film "serves a muckraking, restorative function", and wrote: "Make no mistake, McAleer is polemical, but My Son Hunter doesn't condemn Hunter Biden so much as understand him and the nature of his offense—thus demonstrating the ultimate form of journalistic scruples." [24]

Naomi Fry of The New Yorker called the film "an amateurish, often batshit, if very occasionally vulgarly amusing satire-cum-thriller-cum-melodrama-cum-propaganda-organ, which switches between modes with the head-spinning unexpectedness of a Surrealist cutup." [25]

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