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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.
DVD Features: Audio Commentary:With Director Katja von Garnier and writer Sally Robinson Featurette Other:HBO Films Spot
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
