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The Gilligan Manifesto

The Gilligan Manifesto

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 16, 2018

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

55%

Original Title

The Gilligan Manifesto

Director

Cevin D. Soling

Description

At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.