The movie showed one lady that went to DC and wasn't allowed to testify.

...so you can compare how it holds up compared to the film.:

Although not nearly as bad as John Danforth or Alan Simpson, who were just disgusting pigs.

I think Biden's problem is that he's got a very congenial type of personality and it sometimes inhibits his ability to get tough when things need to get tough (It came out again during Alberto Gonzalez's confirmation hearings). Biden's a "slap the guy on the back, atta boy" type of person and I think if he laid into Thomas harder (as he should have....it's probably the guy's weakest moment in an otherwise distinguished and laudable political career) he'd be cast as the bad guy and I don't think he was mentally prepared for that. Plus, I think he may have still be subliminally reeling from the plagiarism incident a few years back, and if somehow Hill was completely discredited and he had strongly vouched for him, it would pretty much make him look like the town liar and his reputation would be finished.

So yeah, I think there was a lot of cowardice on Biden's part but there was a certain context behind it. As I said, it was probably Biden's lowest point in his otherwise distinguished career.

Interesting that Thomas in the movie was treated at the very least neutrally and arguably slightly sympathetically, even as it also treated Hill sympathetically.

I had forgotten about the other witness. That was such a cluster fuck. It reminded me once again how dirty the Bushes are willing to play, how the democrats were weak and ineffectual, and what a nice lady Anita Hill was. Thomas won with the "high-tech lynching" speech. It pissed me off at Joe all over again. At least Teddy finally spoke up and told the Repubs to shut up with some of their outrageous talk.

was a brilliant move--strategically anyway. Though it was also disgusting to watch in the way that watching good strategy at the expense of a whole people is disgusting.

I think, initially when all this happened I was 20ish and not real tuned into it but last year I saw the Anita Hill documentary and got really pissed off. Then I watched this today and was shocked at how even-handedly they treated Thomas in the movie and got pissed all over again.

I watched those hearings and I never doubted her. She was a well-brought up unsophisticated woman. No way she could have made up his crude remarks. And his character has certainly become clear over the years, zero integrity.