The Freedom to Marry

Name: The Freedom to Marry
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 3, 2017
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 67

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Argot Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: The Freedom to Marry is the behind-the-scenes story of the architects of this historic civil rights
movement and the brilliant, nerve-wracking campaign to win same sex marriage throughout the United States.

Director: Edward Rosenstein

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Leah Greenblatt

Mar 2, 2017

If the  story’s outcome is hardly a  mystery — the landmark case was affirmed by a 5–4 margin in June 2015 — and the look of the film itself a little docu-drab, it’s also a shrewd and frequently moving testament to the true nature of change. Read full review

Daphne Howland

Mar 2, 2017

Rosenstein makes this a suspenseful legal yarn and an essential history lesson. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 13, 2017

Though cameras weren't allowed in the courtroom, Rosenstein gets a whiff of the drama there by watching as Bonauto reviews her own performance after the fact, pausing after each exchange to dispassionately critique the way she made her case. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Mar 13, 2017

Though the documentary could do without encomiums from Wolfson's parents about what a brilliant child he was, it is clear that as an adult he was smart, dynamic and far-seeing about this matter in a way that few others were. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Mar 5, 2017

[A] solid yet unexceptional documentary. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Feb 27, 2017

The Freedom to Marry is a movie that discourages complex thinking or contradiction, but there are little hints here and there of something more frightening and unstable. Read full review

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