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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359212222 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Hbo Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video MPN: D92122D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 07, 2004 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 2004 Editorial Review: Product Description: Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars in a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history telling the true story of how a pair of defiant and brilliant young activists took the women's suffrage movement by storm putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.Running Time: 124 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359212222 Amazon.com: The fight for women's voting rights has rarely been given as dramatic a treatment as in Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) and Frances O'Connor (Mansfield Park) star as second-wave suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who led the final fight for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Though the movie sometimes tries too hard to avoid the stigma of a period piece (the soundtrack features electric guitars, Swank has a steamy moment in a bathtub, and the editing is jagged and flashy), the mounting energy of the fight--and the increasingly nasty opposition--gains real momentum when a wartime picket line leads to Paul, Burns, and their sisters-in-arms being arrested on trumped-up charges and imprisoned. The actors--including Julia Ormond (Smilla's Sense of Snow), Angelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor, The Grifters), and Brooke Smith (Vanya on 42nd Street)--give fervent, determined performances. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - DVDThis is a movie that should be seen by all women and all men, for that matter. We should all be using our privilege of voting no matter what party or no party that we belong to. This movie brings that out magnificently. Hilary Swank is wonderful! Rating:  - Iron Jawed AngelsLong before this movie was recommended to me by a female friend, I had seen this movie at Blockbuster and passed it over. The cover and title combined to make it look like a soft core porn/slasher film which wouldn't merit my time and energy. I was completely wrong of course. Upon personal recommendation and an e mail touting the importance of the early work of these women, I looked up the DVD on Amazon. I did learn a lot about the sacrifices made by these women and a few new historical ... Read More Rating: - Easy TransactionI teach a leadership class and I needed this DVD rather quickly. I received it in plenty of time. The whole transaction from start to finish was simple. Thanks! Rating:  - Good for historical filmWell-done docudrama. Kind of slow moving in parts, but generally well done. It brings home the hardships faced by these truly brave women. Can't say that I would have done what they did. All women should buy this to show to their daughters. Only negative was that it took almost a month to receive. The post office apparently lost the package for a few weeks. Rating: - Women who VOTE -- what a novel ideaIMHO, an important work that we would all benefit from watching. I just learned that approximately 20 MILLION single American women did NOT vote in the last presidential election! This film serves as a reminder that our liberties are so very hard-won, that it takes a combined effort and a deep commitment, and that often the person who begins a battle (Susan B. Anthony) is not the one who sees it through to victory. I didn't give it 5 stars because I didn't think that Hilary Swank ever really connected ... Read More |
