Iron Jawed Angels
by Katja Von Garnier
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Actor: Anjelica Huston, Francis O'Connor, Hilary Swank, Julia Ormond, Patrick DempseyDirector: Katja Von Garnier
Brand: HBO Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 92122
Color: Sage
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor, Lois Smith
- Directors: Katja von Garnier
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 ; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Hbo Home Video
- DVD Release Date: September 7, 2004; Run Time: 123 minutes
Movie Reviews of Iron Jawed Angels
Movie Review: The Lady in the Lavender Hat, and Her Companions
Summary: 5 Stars
In a role that was tailor-made for her, a tomboyish and intelligent-looking Hilary Swank leads a stellar cast in Katja von Garnier's look at the second-generation suffragettes who saw the push for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote, end victoriously.
Occasionally, I found the modern score of this tale of the early 20th century to be rather off-putting, but have come to appreciate its usefullness in attracting a modern audience.
I have been provided with a lesson about the suffragettes who lived to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment that was hitherto unknown to me, although I was familiar with the story of the attacks on the suffragettes during the 1913 parade in Washington.
As Lucy Burns, the exotically beautiful Frances O'Connor, with her sharp, dark eyes, olive skin, red hair, and a strict Irish Catholic upbringing similar to that of the character she plays, is every bit Swank's equal.
The group of suffragettes really come to life in this production, becoming more than the staid women in historical black and white photos. As is exemplified when Alice commandeers Lucy's new lavender hat, and by their kidding around at a photo session during a rally, they are far from humorless, and in fact,are prankish and spirited, although serious about their cause.
Anjelica Huston's performance as Carrie Chapman Catt was worthy of the Golden Globe she received for it. She is primly assertive as she challenges the policies of the young suffragettes, and is either confrontational or supportive of Bob Gunton's President Wilson depending on the issue.Ultimately, she comes to respect the young suffragettes for their bravery in their endurance of abuse and a hunger strike during their unjust incarceration.
Julia Ormond is tragically brave and bravely tragic as Inez Milholland, whose sacrifice brings bittersweetness to the eventual outcome.
Molly Parker's Emily Leighton, the wife of Senator Tom Leighton (Joseph Adams), is as demure and docile as a live Victorian porcelain doll in the beginning, but as she is recruited to the cause, impresses her husband and the world when she shows the stuff she is truly made of.
Vera Farmiga's full-lipped Slavic beauty and strength are well used in her role as the immigrant factory worker Ruza Wenclawska.
Brooke Smith's Mabel Vernon keeps the suffragettes and the NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Association) budget on an even keel.
Adalah Barnes gives spark to the courage of Ida Wells Barnett, who joins the marchers over the objections of Southern delegates who did not want an integrated rally, and Carrie Snodgress, in her last role, typifies the down-home strength of a farm woman as she consoles her daughter, Alice after the death of one of the leading suffragettes, encouraging her to renew the fight despite the setback.
Patrick Dempsey's newspaper columnist, Ben Weissman, is a widowered father and potential love interest for Alice.
Both Alice and Lucy play off well against each other as they discuss their campaign strategy. While she inevitably has her down moments,Alice always knows what to say to win recruits to the cause and to keep those involved in it committed. The definitive moment in the struggle is probably Alice's confrontation with the prison psychiatrist, who expresses his admiration of her gallantry in his report to President Wilson.
On August 18, 1920, a young and unassuming Senator Burns( Peter Berinato) reads a telegram from his mother, Phoebe, and decides to change the course of American history in the Tennessee State House. Alice and Lucy await the final word at Suffragette Headquarters with a poignant tribute to a fallen suffragette posted in one corner of the office.
The celebration of their triumph is a sight to behold; the symbolic yellow stars of pro-suffrage fluttering from the balcony, and two best friends tossing their stylishly bobbed heads thither and yon in acknowledgement of the tribute.
While there are a few inaccuarcies, Katja von Garnier's production is a beautiful tribute to Alice Paul in time for the 120th anniversary of her birth, as a timely one that could help decrease apathy among the American voters of today.
Summary of Iron Jawed Angels
THE TRUE STORY OF HOW DEFIANT & BRILLIANT YOUNG ACTIVISTS ALICE PAUL & LUCY BURNS TOOK THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT BY STORM, PUTTING THEIR LIVES AT RISK IN THE NOBLE STRUGGLE TO HELP AMERICANWOMEN WIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.Similar DVD Movies
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