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Spinning Into Butter
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Doug Atchison
Rebecca Gilman
Directed by: Mark Brokaw
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 27, 2009
DVD: June 9, 2009
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language
Starring Sarah Jessica Parke, Miranda Richardson, Beau Bridges, and Mykelti Williamson
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 prejudice within the cloistered walls of academia. (Screen Media Films)
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What The Critics Said
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USA Today 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 >Variety 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 >Los Angeles Times Glenn Whipp
Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly 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 >Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter 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 >Washington Post 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 >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
If freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what they'd come up with.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a4:
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.
