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  • 2009
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Spinning Into Butter

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 prejudi...

Directed By: Mark Brokaw

Written By: Doug Atchison, Rebecca Gilman

  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Screen Media Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Spinning Into Butter

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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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 prejudi...

Directed By: Mark Brokaw

Written By: Doug Atchison, Rebecca Gilman

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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18% Mixed
2 Reviews
73% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
20
9% Positive
1 Review
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
73% Negative
8 Reviews

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63
Though the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
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Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners.
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I don't mind a movie where people spend a lot of time jawboning, but what they say had better be interesting. In Spinning into Butter we are spoon-fed the deep dark revelation that racism can exist as virulently in liberal environs as in reactionary ones. Alert the media.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
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Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
20
Less a movie than an essay.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
20
What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
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If freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what they'd come up with.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Whitsett Hill Films, Norman Twain Productions
Release Date Mar 27, 2009
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Nothing is as simple as black and white.
Website http://www.spinningintobutter.com/
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Awards

Montréal World Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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