Charles Grodin: Rebel with a Cause

Robert Kennedy once said, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” Charles Grodin, one of the great comedic actors of his generation (The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, Beethoven, etc.) unleashed a tidal wave of hope — as he spent the last twenty years of his life fighting to get wrongly convicted people (most of whom were mothers of color with young children), out of prison.The film includes interviews with Robert De Niro, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Alan Arkin, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Ellen Burstyn, Lewis Black, Marlo Thomas, Marc Maron, Richard Kind, Jon Lovitz, plus, several of the women whom Mr. Grodin got out of prison.