Anyone seen "Iron Jawed Angels" on HBO - historical suffragist movie?

[eablair3]

Just wondering if anyone has seen the historical drama "Iron Jawed Angels" showing on HBO now about the women's suffragist movement?

Alice Paul (played by Hilary Swank) is the lead character. Just wondering if anyone has seen it and what you thought. I thought it was pretty good, and told the story of some very courageous activists.
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http://www.hbo.com/films/ironjawedangels/

IRON JAWED ANGELS recounts for a contemporary audience a key chapter in U.S. history: in this case, the struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Focusing on the two defiant women, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), the film shows how these activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920. Breathing life into the relationships between Paul, Burns and others, the movie makes the women feel like complete characters instead of one-dimensional figures from a distant past.

Although the protagonists have different personalities and backgrounds - Alice is a Quaker and Lucy an Irish Brooklynite - they are united in their fierce devotion to women's suffrage. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight, as the women and their volunteers clash with older, conservative activists, particularly Carrie Chapman Catt (Angelica Huston). They also battle public opinion in a tumultuous time of war, not to mention the most powerful men in the country, including President Woodrow Wilson (Bob Gunton). Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland (Julia Ormond) gives up her life.

The women are thrown in jail, with an ensuing hunger strike making headline news. The women's resistance to being force-fed earns them the nickname "The Iron Jawed Angels." However, it is truly their wills that are made of iron, and their courage inspires a nation and changes it forever.

[Jane Eyre]

1. I taped it

I am thinking about organizing a viewing party for my friends who don't subscribe to HBO. It is amazing that these women went through so much for so long, yet we don't hear that much about their struggle in our schools or in our culture.

[eablair3]

3. agreed

I thought it was pretty amazing and courageous. My own knowledge of their suffering and their activism was and still is somewhat limited, but I thought this movie to be real enlightening.

It caused me to go out and read up some more on the suffragist movement and on Alice Paul. Pretty amazing story, and the movie seemed to be pretty accurate from everything I had read so far.

People like these activists are the real heroes to me. Deciding to picket in war time, using Wilson's own words, and picketing in the face of vicious mobs and corrupt police and judges and then going to jail only to be vindicated in the end with the cases being overturned on appeal and finally with the passage of the 19th Amendment giving rights to vote to women. Only some 80 years ago, women didn't even have the right to vote in this country.

I really liked the movie. It caused me to want to learn more of the movement, and that's one of the factors I consider in determining how good a movie is.

[leftchick]

2. Yes I saw it ...

I loved it and cried at the courage of those women.

[shanti]

4. yes, saw it a couple of weeks ago

it was a terrific movie and i learned a lot about the suffragist movement than i ever knew.

[Scottie72]

5. I loved the film....

The movie demonstrates that the arguments for the advancement of civil rights are always the same.

I also really loved the line to "can you please be a bit more patient" so very relevant today.