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  • 2019
  • Together Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2019
  • Together Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary At a pre-season football party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, a heinous crime took place: the assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team. What transpired would garner national attention and result in the sentencing of two key offenders. But it was the disturbing social media evidence uncovered online...

Directed By: Nancy Schwartzman

Written By: Philip Villa

  • 2019
  • Together Films
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2019
  • Together Films
  • 1 h 20 m

Roll Red Roll

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
83
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary At a pre-season football party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, a heinous crime took place: the assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team. What transpired would garner national attention and result in the sentencing of two key offenders. But it was the disturbing social media evidence uncovered online...

Directed By: Nancy Schwartzman

Written By: Philip Villa

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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90
Mar 21, 2019
A tough but essential watch, Roll Red Roll documents how a sexual assault in a declining Appalachian town became an international cause célèbre. Shots of near-empty streets and an abandoned steel mill provide a melancholy frame for behavior that seems horrifyingly incomprehensible.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
90
Mar 20, 2019
It provides a powerful depiction of the blame-the-victim culture that has so long dominated the national discussion about rape and which only now thankfully seems to be receding. Although there's clearly a long, long way to go.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 3, 2019
Roll Red Roll is about what happens when a crime’s outrage only begins with the cold facts, expanding as one realizes that this is behavior bred, encouraged, accepted and shielded from punishment.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 25, 2019
If Roll Red Roll feels raw and pressing, six and a half years after the event, that’s because it is set on one of the world’s most contested borders: the place where online justice meets, and chafes against, the due process of the law. Expect worse battles to come.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 22, 2019
The phenomenon of rape culture has emerged, more than anywhere, from the frat house (and from spring break, that ritualized bacchanal for kids who aren’t necessarily in frats), and it has been growing there — metastasizing — for decades. Roll Red Roll captures, with potent power, how the “If it feels good, wreck it” ethos of the beer-pong drink-till-you-submit forced “hookup” is finding more and more of a home among high schoolers.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 22, 2019
Some of the filmmaking here is a little frustrating, but Roll Red Roll is ultimately an insightful portrait of an entire city shaken and altered by one heinous act, amplified by modern technology.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 21, 2019
Director Nancy Schwartzman takes us into a crime, the investigation of it, the impact of reporting on that crime and the changing tides of local and national public opinion about what we used to call “date rape” in this gripping, disturbing and brilliant “anatomy of a rape” film.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
7.9
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company Artemis Rising Foundation, Chicken And Egg Pictures, Ford Foundation - Just Films, Fork Films, Multitude Films, Sunset Park Pictures
Release Date Mar 22, 2019
Duration 1 h 20 m
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Tagline Social media, "boys will be boys", and vigilante justice collide... one small town will never be the same.
Website https://rollredrollfilm.com/
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Awards

Nantucket Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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