Let's Get Frank

Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank achieved an uncomfortable sort of public recognition in 1990 when, three years after he came out of the closet as a gay man, he was involved in a scandal involving his use of the services of a male prostitute. Frank weathered the storm of controversy and was ...more

The tone of Let's Get Frank is almost as revealing as any of the factual information contained in Bart Everly's documentary on Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass). For one of the more outspoken members of Congress on the left and (for a time) one of the more controversial members of the House of Representatives on either side of the political spectrum, the atmosphere surrounding the film's subject is cool and breezy, as the Congressman is seen in action, mostly during the Clinton impeachment ...more