Vote for Change

Rent to stream on Channel 10c for 48 hours once started. In 2004 directors Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski set out from Seattle to make a "Super 8 home movie" of Pearl Jam's barnstorming, eight-city Vote for Change Tour. There was no script, no plan. It was gritty, reality film-making in the finest tradition -- recording human moments with hard-pressed voters from Reading, Pa., to Kissimee, Fl.;  getting the music down wherever it happened, including unforgettable footage of a Pearl Jam sound check with Neil Young in a hockey rink in Toledo, Ohio. The result: a film locked away in a vault for four years -- is by turns tender, raw and electric. But more than that it remains a  searingly painful lesson about what can happen when the wheels come off America's democracy.