Provoked: A True Story

Name: Provoked: A True Story
Genre: Drama
Released: May 11, 2007
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 39

2007

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Release Date: May 11, 2007

Summary: When a battered Punjabi housewife sets her abusive husband on fire and kills him, she is sentenced to life in prison. There, she befriends a woman who teaches her English and encourages her to appeal her case.

Director: Jag Mundhra

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 113 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

For all the gushy feelings, the plight of women like Kiranjit, bound not only by domineering, often physically abusive husbands but by racism and oppressive cultural traditions as well, is poignantly portrayed. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Rai's acting is frustratingly passive in Provoked, and the script is laced with prison and courtroom cliches. But the movie gets most of the facts straight and the flashbacks to the wife's abuse are harrowing. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tiny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation by director Mundhra. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Unfortunately, in keeping its inflammatory subject matter at arm’s length, Provoked does exactly the same to its audience. Read full review

Carina Chocano

Chopped into episodes headed by typewritten dates, Provoked turns the case of a lifetime into something straight out of Lifetime. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Short-changing issues of race and wearing its heart way out on its sleeve, it's the film's amateur exposition that's most dumbfounding -- poised to provoke more sarcasm than righteous indignation. Read full review

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