Spinning into Butter (film)
2.6 /10 1 Votes2.6
16% Rotten Tomatoes Duration Initial DVD release June 9, 2009 | 4.1/10 IMDb 20% Metacritic Genre Drama Running time 1h 29m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 16, 2008 (2008-07-16) (Australia)March 2009 (2009-03) (United States) Cast (Sarah Daniels), (Dean Catherine Kenney), (Patrick Chibas), Jake M. Smith (Jason)Similar movies The Human Stain (2003), White Mans Burden (1995), The Well (1951), Nothing But a Man (1964), Higher Learning (1995) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
spinning into butter performed by sheena sharifi and victor serda
Spinning Into Butter is a 2008 drama film written by Rebecca Gilman and loosely based on her play of the same title. It was directed by first-time director Mark Brokaw and produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, who also stars in the film. Spinning Into Butter was sold for distribution Cannes Film Market on May 17, 2007 and opened in the U.S. in March, 2009. The film concerns political correctness and racial identity.
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Plot
When a New England liberal arts college experiences a hate crime against one of its few black students, the school's dean of students (Parker) must respond publicly to the incident while privately confronting her own latent racism and prejudice.
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Reception
As of March 2010, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 16% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 31 reviews with an average score of 3.6/10. The site's consensus of reviews was:
"Both leaden and stilted, Spinning Into Butter is an unsubtle drama with stagy direction and lackluster dialogue."References
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