Genre
Action/Adventure, Drama
Producer
Kirk Shaw, Maxime Remillard, Mary Aloe, Stuart Townsend
Distributor
Redwood Palms Pictures
Release Date
Sep 19, 2008
Release Notes
Limited
Official Website
Review
Actor Stuart Townsend’s ambitious directorial debut, Battle in Seattle, re-creates the violent WTO protests of 1999 by following the intersecting lives of protesters, cops, and civilians as they flee, riot, and fight. The drama gets heavy-handed at times, but the film is a triumph, thanks to a crack cast including Connie Nielson, stunning as a TV reporter who joins her subjects in protest.
— Sara Cardace
| 9.0 |
"Highly Recommended" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |
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a extrardinarily important and moving film
cflpeace from 90005 | Posted on 9/27/08
Overall Rating: 9 (Highly Recommended)
We are at a critical time: from Iraq and Afghanistan to global warming and economic crash, our survival depends on our coming to understand ourselves to be active members of humanity, vibrant participants of history, not just spectators of it.
So when a film comes along that brings us into this consciousness, making us horrified at the worst we can be and exalted at our best, that is an extraordinary movie, one we should get all our friends, youth, and older children out to see as soon as possible.
Multifaceted characters in very trying times keep it real; action and passions keep it moving.
I saw it last night when it opened; the audience cheered, laughed, applauded, groaned, and otherwise responded throughout. And I imagine, that for many people there for whom this was all new, a news report will never be the same as before.
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