Spinning Into Butter

Name: Spinning Into Butter
Genre: Drama
Released: March 27, 2009
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 20

2009

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: March 27, 2009 | R

Summary: A vicious hate crime at an elite New England college thrust the new dean of students into the investigation. When charged with maintaining order on campus, she is forced to examine her own feelings about race. Based on the critically acclaimed play, Spinning into Butter is a compelling movie that examines the emotional fallout of prejudiceA vicious hate crime at an elite New England college thrust the new dean of students into the investigation. When charged with maintaining order on campus, she is forced to examine her own feelings about race. Based on the critically acclaimed play, Spinning into Butter is a compelling movie that examines the emotional fallout of prejudice within the cloistered walls of academia. (Screen Media Films)… Expand

Director: Mark Brokaw

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 86 min

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Claudia Puig

Though the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

In style and content, Sarah Jessica Parker starrer is the kind of earnest, talky, modestly scaled social-issue pic that seems predestined for the smallscreen. Read full review

Glenn Whipp

Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students. Read full review

Frank Scheck

What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Less a movie than an essay. Read full review

Dan Kois

The movie suffers most of all from a feeling of creeping irrelevance, as if it's being delivered well after its sell-by date. Read full review

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JayH.

Jun 18, 2009

A poorly structured film, trite writing, the acting is overzealous and the story is overstated. The film is so busy trying to be significant and important it neglects to entertain.

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