Daytime Revolution

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Daytime Revolution

2024,

1h 48m,

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For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women's liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon's "Imagine". A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world.

Claudia Puig

FilmWeek (LAist)

Nov 4, 2024

It's a lovely portrait of an artist gone far too young.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Oct 10, 2024

The movie’s quiet star is Douglas himself... Douglas’s kindness and intellectual curiosity are more compelling than any political argument.

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David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

Oct 8, 2024

This recap of a unique and deeply sincere bid to demystify utopian ideals for the conservative masses using the platform of popular television offers a fascinating glimpse into a very different period in this country’s past.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Dec 8, 2025

4/5

Watching Daytime Revolution today feels like opening a time capsule you always knew existed but never really got to explore.

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James Croot

The Post NZ

Mar 11, 2025

Essentially echoes Questlove’s Summer of Soul in presenting much of this as sometimes astounding and jaw-dropping “found-footage”, delivered chronologically with just the right amount of modern-day commentary from those who were there

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Nov 16, 2024

B+

Erik Nelson takes us back over fifty years, beginning with a montage of newsreel footage...to remind us that a divided America was once being led by a corrupt president, while outspoken political idealists offered a different perspective.

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For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women's liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon's "Imagine". A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world.

Director: Erik Nelson
Producer: Amy Briamonte
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Creative Differences, Shout! Studios
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 9, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 26, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $35.0K
Runtime: 1h 48m

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