Rent Suffragette (2015)

3.5 of 5 from 387 ratings
1h 41min
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Synopsis:
Maud (Carey Mulligan) is a working mother drawn into the fight for women's rights. She and her friends become foot soldiers in Mrs Pankhurst's early feminist movement. Maud's demands for equality result in her being fired from her job, thrown out on the streets by her husband, and banned from seeing her son. But the Suffragette sisterhood rallies round to support her and together they continue their heart-breaking and inspirational fight to be heard.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Alison Owen, Faye Ward
Writers:
Abi Morgan
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Genres:
Drama
Collections:
Drama Films & TV, Historical British Prime Ministers On Screen, Top 10 Award Winners at the London Film Festival, Top Films
BBFC:
Release Date:
29/04/2016
Run Time:
101 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Audio Commentary by Director Sarah Gavron and Screenwriter Abi Morgan
  • Inside 'Suffragette'
  • Looking Back, Looking Forward
  • Theatrical Trailer
BBFC:
Release Date:
29/04/2016
Run Time:
101 minutes
Languages:
English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Audio Commentary by Director Sarah Gavron and Screenwriter Abi Morgan
  • Inside 'Suffragette'
  • Looking Back, Looking Forward
  • Theatrical Trailer

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Reviews (3) of Suffragette

Disgraceful distortion of history - fake news by any other name. - Suffragette review by PV

Spoiler Alert
06/08/2017

This film angered me. Why? Well, it tries to convince us all that:

1) women didn't get the vote till 1918 (not true - women had a vote in local elections from the same time as men in the 1800s in Britain);

2) that all men were privileged and had always had the vote (not so - most men lived lives of dire poverty and 1 million nearly were about to die in World War I and working men only got a vote in general elections in 1888); 3) That suffragettes were all jolly Cockney working class women - NOT TRUE! Most were upper class women who ALL had badly paid servants, never worked a day in their lives and moreover did NOT want ordinary working class people to have a vote or better working and living conditions.

4) The woman who threw herself under the King's horse in 1912 was utterly selfish as she killed a horse and severely injured a jockey and achieved NOTHING - and historical research has shown her to be a psychotic and mentally ill woman.

5) this film piles on the issues - bad working conditions (mostly endured by MEN in mines etc let's not forget - for women it as an aspiration NOT to work as that made you middle class!), even child abuse (of a nasty cartoon character male villain against a girl of course. That is pure manipulation by the writer - Abi Morgan who has a record of faking history and siding with any woman over men, as in her Thatcher movie. The campaign for votes for women - supported by MANY MILLIONS of men actually! incl churches nationwide - had NOTHING to do with campaigning for better working conditions or against child abuse. This movie disgracefully aims to fold all those issues into each other in a way I found deeply distastefully and wrong.

Now, most people won't know all that. They'll think this film is pure fact and that is dangerous because that makes it PROPGANDA as bad as anything spread by dictatorships.

A good movie is yet to be made about this issue.

No stars.

3 out of 8 members found this review helpful.

Worth watching as a piece of feminist history - Suffragette review by CP Customer

Spoiler Alert
25/09/2017

The film is well made with good performances, if a little melodramatic in places. I enjoyed watching it but did not find it great or inspiring.

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

Predictable period British fare - Suffragette review by Alphaville

Spoiler Alert
27/01/2022

There’s no doubt a place for actorly dramatised history lessons to pass a Sunday evening on the TV, and this film’s heart is in the right place even if biased, but its main problem is that it’s oh-so-predictable and pedestrian with not an ounce of cinematic imagination.

0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.

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