Battle in Seattle

Name: Battle in Seattle
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: September 19, 2008
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 54

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BATTLE IN SEATTLE

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Redwood Palms Pictures | Release Date: September 19, 2008

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, theDjango, 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 WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a riot cop on the streets and his pregnant wife. The choices they make will change their lives forever and prove, ultimately, that ordinary people can change the world. (Redwood Palms Pictures)… Expand

Director: Stuart Townsend

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 98 min

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Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman

His (Townsend) staging has a tumult, a multi-POV immediacy that brings to mind Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday." Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

The result is not quite a documentary and not quite a drama, but interesting all the same. It uses the approach of Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool" (1969), but without the same urgency. Read full review

The Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt

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. Read full review

Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan

Townsend's sincerity, his admiration for the idealism of the people behind the anti-WTO protests, is never in doubt, but combining drama with historical re-creation is frankly a challenge his filmmaking skills are not up to. Read full review

Village Voice - J. Hoberman

Flapping like a scarecrow in the wind, Battle in Seattle is too frantic to make more than a transitory impression, yet too responsibly hackneyed in its characterizations to achieve pure tabloid hysteria. Read full review

New York Post - Lou Lumenick

In his directing debut Battle in Seattle, actor Stuart Towns end does an impressive job (on a shoestring budget) of re-creating the massive street protests that forced the cancellation of the World Trade Organization summit in 1999. Read full review

New York Daily News - Joe Neumaier

Well-intentioned but as earnest as a college freshman discovering campus politics. Read full review

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