Iron Jawed Angels
by Katja von Garnier
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Actor: Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor, Hilary Swank, Lois Smith, Margo MartindaleDirector: Katja von Garnier
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Denise Pinckley
Producer: James Bigwood
Producer: Laura McCorkindale
Writer: Eugenia Bostwick-Singer
Writer: Jennifer Friedes
Writer: Raymond Singer
Writer: Sally Robinson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Iron Jawed Angels
Movie Review: I wanted so much to like it, but ultimately lackluster
Summary: 3 Stars
It was far too Hollywood-ized for my liking - glitz and glamor from cinematic narrative tricks to an overwrought score to cutesy little camera play were distracting and took away from the emotional resonance, in my opinion. The little moments of humor between the character were good and I bought the friendly affection between the leads.
I disliked the way the movie ended as well - in traditional biopic fashion they tell, rather than show, that the battle was not over. I would have preferred an additional scene showing that Alice Paul was not done fighting especially given one of the discussions she had earlier in the film. Hell I would have even taken a montage as horrible as those usually are.
The movie was two hours long but I still felt that it was far too short and that it gave short shrift to many issues. The romantic relationship between Alice Paul and the WaPo reporter seemed to just hang in the air and not do much. Race is brought up as a 5 second aside in two separate scenes; I would have liked to see a lot more development there. Honestly, I think that this would have been benefited by miniseries treatment. It's a fertile period of history and I think taking some time to develop the stories would have given far more depth and reduced the need for fancy camera/narrative tricks.
All in all, decent movie weighed down by trying to take on too much content, Hollywood conventions, and a weak ending.
Summary of Iron Jawed Angels
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
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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
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