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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:  - IMPORTANT SUBJECT, BADLY MADE MOVIEI just finished watching HBO's Iron Jawed Angels, as difficult as it was to watch. The characters have no depth, the soundtrack overpowers the spoken words, and the music....did anyone notice the time period on this subject? Music for the 21st century was so completely wrong for this movie it actually shocked me that HBO put this together. The subject was serious and the women who stood up for ALL women's rights deserve to be spoken of with more respect than this HOLLYWOOD PIECE OF TRASH did. I have ... Read More Rating:  - Iron Jawed AngelsI loved this movie the first time I saw it and enjoy it every time I watch it. It is an entertaining historical view of women's suffrage and puts into perspective what lengths some women went to for the right to vote. Rating: - Blown awayI'm so excited to be able to share this with my history classes. What a terrific representation of the fight for womens' right to vote. We've heard the names and we know the outcome of their fight, but seeing this movie really brings home what they did for us and what it cost those women. Swank, Huston, Ormond, Martindale and others were perfect. Rating: - A reminder of the road travelled...as well as the one that still needs to be tread upon. Excellent film, that while not completely accurate in it's entirety, still manages to capture the spirit, frustration and rare moments of exhilaration during the height of the women's suffrage movement. The movie shows the historic "War of the Roses" in which the pro and anti suffragist legislators wore their yellow and red roses, but there was one heroine who wasn't even there and who played perhaps the biggest role with the most concise note: ... Read More Rating: - Watch This With Your DaughtersThis story is especially poignant now, while America is in the midst of a presidential election where a woman, Hillary Clinton, is vying for the Democratic nomination, and all the candidates are sloganeering the concept of "change." Iron Jawed Angels portrays the struggles and sacrifices made by the Suffragists Alice Paul (portrayed by Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (portrayed by Frances O'Connor). Along with their diverse team of recruits--from a senator's wife to an immigrant factory worker--they surpassed ... Read More |
