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Iron Jawed Angels on DVD (2004)

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Average rating: 62%
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Starring: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Patrick Dempsey
Director: Katja Von Garnier
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time: 123 mins
Certificate: 12
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: 09/10/2006

Brief synopsis of Iron Jawed Angels

Directed by Katja von Garnier, IRON JAWED ANGELS tells the inspiring true story behind the women's rights movement in America. Hilary Swank (BOYS DON'T CRY) stars as Alice Paul, a fiery female who is determined to see the day when women are granted the right to vote. Of course, her bold efforts place her in a dangerous position, but Paul's determination eventually helped to change the tide of history forever. Co-starring Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, and Molly Parker, IRON JAWED ANGELS is an engaging tribute to an oft-forgotten moment in American history.

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Rated - 4 starsInformative

crispin40 from Stirling, Scotland , 07/01/2007

I think I borrowed this as Hilary Swank was in it but I'm glad I did. We, in Britain, have heard a great deal about the British suffragettes of the Pankhurst era but nothing much about the same struggles in the USA. This was informative and also entertaining.

It has made us want to look up more on suffrage - eg when did women in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Switzerland etc get the vote and did they all have to go through the same struggles.

Some of the scenes were a wee bit overdone - we could have done without such realistic recreations of forcible feeding - but a good film - basically written, directed, acted by women. Maybe their struggles will come to fruition with a woman president soon!

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Rated - 4 starsA great low budget movie

A customer from Kent , 01/01/2007

Granted the soundtrack was badly chosen, but that aside this is a great film. It's the kind of story that makes you want to learn more about the real events that it has been based on. This is worth making time for, and if you're in any doubt just look at the cast list.

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Rated - 1 starsGood idea...shame about the reality

barbi [Highly rated reviewer] , 16/10/2006

Somewhere in here was an interesting story. It had good actors. However, nothing in it caught my imagination, my husband went off to play with the computer and the cat got down on the floor and turned his back on it.

I'm not sure how it went quite so wrong - the sound track didn't know where it was going, half the time modern rock/rap, half the time jazz seemingly of the period of the film, and the film itself was a bit like that. No interest. One star for effort.

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