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Title: Won't Back Down (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... | Jamie Fitzpatrick | |
| Viola Davis | ... | Nona Alberts | |
| Oscar Isaac | ... | Michael Perry | |
| Holly Hunter | ... | Evelyn Riske | |
| Rosie Perez | ... | Breena Harper | |
| Emily Alyn Lind | ... | Malia Fitzpatrick | |
| Dante Brown | ... | Cody Alberts | |
| Lance Reddick | ... | Charles Alberts | |
| Ving Rhames | ... | Principal Thompson | |
| Bill Nunn | ... | Principal Holland | |
| Ned Eisenberg | ... | Arthur Gould | |
| Marianne Jean-Baptiste | ... | Olivia Lopez | |
| Liza Colón-Zayas | ... | Yvonne | |
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Nancy Bach | ... | Deborah |
| Keith Flippen | ... | Ben | |
Two determined mothers with children who are failing in an inner city school in Pittsburgh join forces to take back the school, and turn it into a place of learning. But before they can change the school for the better, they must first battle the parents, the school board, and the teachers union. Because this is for their children, they won't back down from this enormous challenge. Written by Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
As a public high school teacher, I will never forgive Viola Davis for shilling for the Education for Profit corporate machine. The film was an excellent piece of propaganda that would have made Goebbels proud. It is clear that for profit schools do not improve student outcomes. The only charter schools that have been successful are the few not-for profit charters where students come before profit.