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  • 2008
  • R
  • Redwood Palms Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Redwood Palms Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Django, Sam, Lou and Jay are united in their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these protesters, this is very personal and the stakes are higher than mere politics. A peaceful demonstration to stop the WTO talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot and an eventual State of Emergency results. The streets are mayhem, the...

Directed By: Stuart Townsend

  • 2008
  • R
  • Redwood Palms Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Redwood Palms Pictures
  • 1 h 39 m

Battle in Seattle

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 24 User Ratings
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Summary Django, Sam, Lou and Jay are united in their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these protesters, this is very personal and the stakes are higher than mere politics. A peaceful demonstration to stop the WTO talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot and an eventual State of Emergency results. The streets are mayhem, the...

Directed By: Stuart Townsend

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His (Townsend) staging has a tumult, a multi-POV immediacy that brings to mind Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday."
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
What the film lacks in artistry it makes up for in commitment.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
While it makes no bones about where its sympathies lie, these fictional stories show a genuine fascination with the role politics plays on both sides of such confrontations and how things can spin out of control with no single person to blame.
By Kirk Honeycutt FULL REVIEW
50
Near the end of the movie, Django jokes that, after the protests, people may still not know what the WTO is, but "they know it's bad." That's a fair summation of how much insight Battle in Seattle provides for its viewers.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
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Getting an inside view on events is fascinating enough to carry the movie.
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A drama is only as convincing as its characters. The people awkwardly forced together in Battle in Seattle are rhetorical mouthpieces tied to the sketchy plotlines of a so-so Hollywood ensemble movie.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
20
Well-intentioned but as earnest as a college freshman discovering campus politics.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hyde Park Entertainment, Insight Film Studios, Remstar Productions, Proud Mary Entertainment, Grosvenor Park Media, Redwood Palms Pictures, Battle In Seattle Productions, Victoria Filmproduktion, Aloe Entertainment, 120dB Films
Release Date Sep 19, 2008
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
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Awards

Leo Awards
• 3 Nominations
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 1 Nomination

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