Rating: R
Genre:
History [nf]
Release Date: 12/06/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 106 min
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The personal film archives of
Yoko Ono were utilized for this feature-length
documentary on the life of
John Lennon. Predictably, it downplays
Lennon's association with
the Beatles and concentrates on his years with
Ono. The film spends a lot of time recounting
Lennon's anti-war activities, highlighted by a confrontation on a
talk show hosted by conservative cartoonist
Al Capp. The title of the
documentary is, of course, taken from
Lennon's idyllic ballad about a world free of hatred and discord.
Imagine: John Lennon is a reverent but ultimately depressing chronicle of an artist who died the untimeliest of deaths.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide