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      Spinning Into Butter

      R Released Mar 20, 2009 1 hr. 26 min. Drama List
      16% 32 Reviews Tomatometer 32% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Amid charges of racism, Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker) leaves the school where she's been teaching and relocates to a small college in Vermont. There, she becomes dean without informing anyone of her past. After African-American student Simon Brick (James Rebhorn) becomes the victim of a hate crime, Daniels must confront her attitudes about race when she's called upon to resolve the situation and come up with a plan to defuse tension at the school. Read More Read Less
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      Both leaden and stilted, Spinning into Butter is an unsubtle drama with stagy direction and lackluster dialogue.

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      Audience Member Probably watched this movie for the wrong reason. This movie does make you think. Not all individuals think in terms of stereotypes. The reason the situation happened is really messed up. But, it's like people say, when you go looking for trouble, or you always expect it, you shouldn't be surprised when it finally happens. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member it has this play feel to it and that doesn't translate well into being a movie. wanted to like it but ended up boring me. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member ?? film ???? ????? ?? ??? ???? ???????? ??? ?? ????????!!! ??? ??? ??? S.J.Parker...... ???????? ?? ??? ????? ???? ???????? ???? ??? ?? sex and the city......! Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie gets you thinking I just wish the plot was thought out a little more Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member there are good racism movies. this is not one of them. this isn't much of good movie, period. incredibly stale and wooden performances from the entire cast, with the possible exception of Mykelti Williamson. the characters aren't sympathetic, the story is mired in political correctness, and the dialogue is so forced you almost have to wonder if it'd be a different film if people could say what they would naturally say instead of lines off a script. Rebecca Gilman's play is at least somewhat tolerable because it involves a bit of thinking on the audience's part. this does all your thinking for you, and it does a very poor job of it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member there are good racism movies. this is not one of them. this isn't much of good movie, period. incredibly stale and wooden performances from the entire cast, with the possible exception of Mykelti Williamson. the characters aren't sympathetic, the story is mired in political correctness, and the dialogue is so forced you almost have to wonder if it'd be a different film if people could say what they would naturally say instead of lines off a script. Rebecca Gilman's play is at least somewhat tolerable because it involves a bit of thinking on the audience's part. this does all your thinking for you, and it does a very poor job of it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Beau Bridges as Burton Strauss in "Spinning Into Butter." Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Daniels in "Spinning Into Butter." James Rebhorn as Winston Garvey in "Spinning Into Butter." Miranda Richardson as Catherine Kenney in "Spinning Into Butter." View more photos

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      Anna King Time Out Rated: 1/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Cary Darling Dallas Morning News The biggest lesson from Spinning Into Butter has nothing to do with the ethics of race and more with realizing that every hit play doesn't need to be turned into a movie. Rated: C+ Apr 17, 2009 Full Review Ben Lyons At the Movies It feels like an after school special. Mar 30, 2009 Full Review Sonny Bunch Washington Times Spinning Into Butter is the perfect example of a movie taking an interesting premise and, through incompetence of acting, writing and directing, turning it into an unwatchable mess. Rated: 1.5/4 Aug 30, 2009 Full Review Kevin Carr 7M Pictures if you're not interested in a sermon, you'll want to skip this one Rated: 2/5 Jun 15, 2009 Full Review Brian Orndorf DVDTalk.com Butter makes a disastrous transition to film, aiming to salvage pertinent points on the witch's brew of racism through a filmmaking undertaking perhaps best described as "total clown shoes." Rated: D May 5, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Amid charges of racism, Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker) leaves the school where she's been teaching and relocates to a small college in Vermont. There, she becomes dean without informing anyone of her past. After African-American student Simon Brick (James Rebhorn) becomes the victim of a hate crime, Daniels must confront her attitudes about race when she's called upon to resolve the situation and come up with a plan to defuse tension at the school.
      Director
      Mark Brokaw
      Executive Producer
      Mark Davis, Roger Howe, Tom Wilson, Nicolas Stiliadis
      Screenwriter
      Rebecca Gilman, Doug Atchison
      Distributor
      Screen Media Ventures
      Production Co
      Norman Twain Productions, Whitsett Hill Films
      Rating
      R (Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 20, 2009, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 9, 2009
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $5.5K
      Sound Mix
      Dolby