Around 1968, Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) cofounded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") to protest the Vietnam War. Before violence broke out, Hoffman and Jerry Rubin unveiled Pigasus, a boar hog that was to be the Yippies' presidential candidate in 1968. After getting arrested for trying to sell $36,000 worth of cocaine, he jumped bail in 1974. In the '80s, he reinvented himself as Barry Freed and underwent plastic surgery for a totally different look. He spent his last years as an environmental activist and died in 1989 from a phenobarbital overdose.
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