Spinning into Butter R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 9, 2009
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Beau Bridges, Miranda Richardson, Sarah Jessica Parker & Mykelti Williamson | |
Performer: | James Rebhorn, Victor Rasuk, Richard Riehle, Peter Friedman & Paul James | |
Directed by | Mark Brokaw | |
Screenwriting by | Rebecca Gilman | |
Composition by | Mark Davis | |
Produced by | Lou Pitt & Norman Twain | |
Director of Photography: | John Thomas | |
Executive Production by | Mark Davis, Roger J. Howe, Ryan Howe & Wayne Thompson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
if you're not interested in a sermon, you'll want to skip this one
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7M Pictures
Rating: 1.5/4 --
The material is crying out for a satiric wit or at least a stronger point of view. Instead, it's a mishmash in which everyone gets to say his piece, but all of it has been said before.
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New York Post
Rating: C+ --
The biggest lesson from Spinning Into Butter has nothing to do with the ethics of race and more with realizing that every hit play doesn't need to be turned into a movie.
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Dallas Morning News
This movie would've been bad in 1983, but at least it would've been original.
At the Movies
Rating: D+ --
The staging by theater director Mark Brokaw, in his first feature, is, well, stagy. I don't mind a movie where people spend a lot of time jawboning, but what they say had better be interesting.
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Christian Science Monitor
Rating: 2/5 --
The foils have no compunction about hurling ugly truths at each other, most of the time much too literally to work on screen.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: C- --
Painfully earnest and unrelievedly stilted and cliched, the movie is less a drama than a well-meaning but rather ridiculous diatribe.
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One Guy's Opinion
Product Description:
Sarah Jessica Parker and Mykelti Williamson star in this racial drama set in the world of academia. Playing against type, a brunette Parker taps into her serious side as Sarah Daniels, the Dean of Students at distinguished Vermont college Belmont University, who must confront her own personal views about race after a black student (Paul James) becomes the victim of hate crimes on campus. But when the administration's "politically correct" attempts to teach tolerance backfire, the campus runs rampant with prejudice once hidden but now revealed. As the student body and faculty clash, Sarah tries to bring a fresh perspective to the platform. In the process, she spends some time with a local African-American TV newsman (Williamson) who is covering the story. As the scandal unfolds, their conversation evolves, building to a breaking point in which Sarah confesses to feelings that go beyond her self-described liberal stance.
Director Mark Brokaw is ambitious in this small-scale feature, which is based on the play by Rebecca Gilman. Brokaw, who comes from a theater background, takes liberties with the script, at times veering off from Gilman’s plot in surprising ways. The film tackles large themes despite its surface simplicity, and while it does not come close to answering the large questions it poses, it also reminds viewers that these questions may be unanswerable by their very nature.
Director Mark Brokaw is ambitious in this small-scale feature, which is based on the play by Rebecca Gilman. Brokaw, who comes from a theater background, takes liberties with the script, at times veering off from Gilman’s plot in surprising ways. The film tackles large themes despite its surface simplicity, and while it does not come close to answering the large questions it poses, it also reminds viewers that these questions may be unanswerable by their very nature.