All the elements for a splendid film about the early days of the women's rights are in place, but director Katja Von Garnier's use of distracting cinematic trickery and jarringly modern music meshes poorly with the period setting. In 1912, old-guard suffragettes Carrie Chapman Catt (Anjelica Huston) and Anna Howard Shaw (Lois Smith) reluctantly welcome idealistic Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) to the cause. The dynamic pair take on the movement's Washington, D.C. chapter and garner approval with a propaganda parade led by human rights activist Inez Millholland (Julia Ormond). But the cautious-to-a-fault national committee is less ple...
Released:
2004
Rated:
n/a
Length:
124 mins