Spinning Into Butter

  • 2007


MOVIE IS unreasonable satirical offensive excruciatingly timely
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2 %
16 % Rotten
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 5
Negative reviews 17
Average Rating 2.0/5
unreasonable satirical offensive excruciatingly timely

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1.5
Shelf mold encrusts this misshapen adaptation of Spinning Into Butter, and Rebecca Gilmans 1999 play about racism and toxic political correctness at a .. EW
1.3
Despite this satirical undercurrent, American Utopia doesnt wallow in cynicism, and the closing stretch breaks through Byrnes many layers of postmoder ..
1.5
The film feels stuck in a particularly 90s flavored argument about political correctness and culture wars on campus that you probably got tired of dur ..
1.5
If freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what theyd come up with Ny Daily News
3.0
What Sarah doesnt realize in her effort to do the right thing is that word minority is offensive and people of color is preferred. Spirituality And Practice
2.2
Painfully earnest and unrelievedly stilted and cliched, the movie is less a drama than a well meaning but rather ridiculous diatribe. One Guys Opinion
1.5
Every line of dialogue sounds contrived, right up to the phony baloney twist ending. Village Voice
3.1
This examination comes to a crescendo when shes in the company of Aaron Carmichael (Mykelti Williamson), an African American reporter. Usa Today
1.8
The staging by theater director Mark Brokaw, in his first feature, is, well, stagy. I dont mind a movie where people spend a lot of time jawboning, bu .. Cs Monitor
1.9
The material is crying out for a satiric wit or at least a stronger point of view. Instead, its a mishmash in which everyone gets to say his piece, bu .. New York Post
0.5
This excruciatingly p.c. worrywart of a film takes the Little Black Sambo story and tries to make something trenchant and socially important of it, bu .. Film Journal International ..
1.3
Meanwhile, the undergrads are restless the ones who arent rotten with complacency. Boston
1.8
Betraying its theatrical origins, Brokaws feature debut is a vastly disappointing message movie in which Sarah Jessica Parker (also credited as produc .. Emanuellevy
2.0
The foils have no compunction about hurling ugly truths at each other, most of the time much too literally to work on screen. Calendar Live
2.0
Credit goes to playwright Gilman and company for addressing an ugly situation head on. Unfortunately, its a scenario that lends itself to hot air and .. Boxoffice Magazine
1.5
More spin than spinning, this raw race conversation driven drama taps into timely issues touching on diversity conflicts that persist. But sorry to sa .. News Blaze
1.5
May force the audience to confront its own reactions to the dilemmas ... of a society in which people talk at each other, rather than with each other. Hollywood And Fine
2.5
Director Peter Cornwell wisely doesnt rely on gore as a means of shocking or entertaining. Nyc Movie Guru
1.5
The subject deserves a stronger deconstruction than this picture offers; a film that ultimately makes light of prejudice and hate through unbearable e .. Dvd Talk
2.8
The biggest lesson from Spinning Into Butter has nothing to do with the ethics of race and more with realizing that every hit play doesnt need to be t .. Guide Live
3.5
The best of intentions and a welcome willingness to engage on the touchiest issues is not enough to keep this movie from feeling more like a seminar t .. Movie Mom
1.9
Miss Parker isnt a bad actress, per se, but shes clearly out of her depth with this subject matter. Washington Times
4.5
The great thing about Late Bloomer is that it defies classification. Louis Proyect Word Press



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