“A no-holds-barred, deeply touching look at the career of the former mayor of Washington…by Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer [that cuts] Barry no slack…yet also manages to see him as a human being rather than just the profane, night-vision green figure viewed by millions in an FBI sting video smoking crack cocaine in the hotel room of a woman who wasn’t his wife.”


—Baltimore Sun

“No screenwriter would dare dream up the rise and fall of Marion Barry. You can’t make this up. Which is why The Nine Lives of Marion Barry is such addictive viewing…Flor and Oppenheimer give us a superb look at the multiple lives of Barry. The story…is mesmerizing.”


—Boston Globe

“The genius of the film is the storytelling through Barry himself and his now deceased wife Effi Barry.”


—The Daily Voice

“Marion Barry: Washington DC councilman, mayor, womanizer, drug abuser, convict, punch line, viewed from a safe distance…however crazy his private life has become, he has been continually returned to office…People like him because his troubles look like theirs.”


—LA Times

“The rise and fall (and rise and fall and rise—how many is that?) of Marion Barry is a story worth telling…This is a riveting history.”


—Newsday

“Love Barry or hate him, it’s a remarkable tale… Flor and Oppenheimer have done a fine job of letting it tell itself.”


—NY Daily News