Won't Back Down (Blu-ray) PG
If you can't beat the system... change it
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez & Oscar Isaac | |
| Performer: | Ving Rhames, Bill Nunn, Emily Alyn Lind, Lance Reddick, Ned Eisenberg & Marianne Jean-Baptiste | |
| Directed by | Daniel Barnz | |
| Edited by | Kristina Boden | |
| Screenwriting by | Daniel Barnz | |
| Composition by | Marcelo Zarvos | |
| Cinematography by | Roman Osin | |
| Produced by | Mark Johnson | |
| Director of Photography: | Roman Osin |
Entertainment Reviews:
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61%
Rating: 3/5 --
A straight-talking, partisan account about the failings of a broken system and a band of women who argued for better for their children.
Little White Lies
Rating: B- --
Social-issue movies can have real societal impact. That's why Won't Back Down, which presses a lot of hot buttons, deserves to be taken seriously, and criticized seriously, on its own terms.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 2/5 --
It's all way too much and perhaps the most troubling aspect is that it casts the teachers' union as the villain.
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Metro (UK)
Gyllenhaal and Davis make a good team. The former is impulsive and enthusiastic, displaying an undefeatable determination. Davis is cautious and reserved, providing a balance and check to her partner in change.
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Digital Journal
It mixes attempts at realism and grit with transparently Hollywoodized good guys-vs.-bad guys social melodrama. That requires a deft directorial hand, but director Daniel Barnz doesn't seem to have it.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
3 stars out of 5 -- WON'T BACK DOWN makes grand drama of bureaucracy, positioning Gyllenhaal as the knight slaying 400 pages of government paperwork in order to wrest control of her daughter's elementary school.
Box Office
Rating: 2/5 --
More anti-union propaganda masquerading as entertainment.
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London Evening Standard
Product Description:
Two headstrong mothers (Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis) wage a valiant struggle to save their children's troubled inner-city school, but find their forward-thinking efforts hampered at every turn by apathy and systematic bureaucracy. Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez, and Ving Rhames co-star.
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