Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Anne-Marie Duff | ... | Violet Miller | |
Grace Stottor | ... | Maggie Miller | |
Geoff Bell | ... | Norman Taylor | |
Carey Mulligan | ... | Maud Watts | |
Amanda Lawrence | ... | Miss Withers | |
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Shelley Longworth | ... | Miss Samson |
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Adam Michael Dodd | ... | George Watts |
Ben Whishaw | ... | Sonny Watts | |
Sarah Finigan | ... | Mrs Garston | |
Drew Edwards | ... | Male Laundry Worker | |
Lorraine Stanley | ... | Mrs Coleman | |
Romola Garai | ... | Alice Haughton | |
Adam Nagaitis | ... | Mr Cummins | |
Helena Bonham Carter | ... | Edith Ellyn | |
Finbar Lynch | ... | Hugh Ellyn |
A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational. Written by Production
This film is a fictionalized story of a woman caught up in the suffrage movement in Britain in the early 20th century. Carry Mulligan plays Maud Watts...a woman who slowly comes into the movement and the sacrifices she personally made as a result.
I noticed that a few of the reviews on IMDb hated the film and by the way they worded the reviews, they seemed upset that women earned the right to vote or thought women never had fight to achieve this!! Strange...very strange. Women DID have to fight and fight hard to earn their rights and the film does a very nice job of it. Why anyone would give the film a 1 or see it as some lie is just baffling...and ignorant of British history. The fictionalized life of Carry Mulligan's is essentially true of many women and the horrific event concerning Emily Davison DID occur in 1913....so why hate that the film dramatizes this?
Overall, the film is extremely compelling and very emotional to watch. Seeing women abused and mistreated is tough....and should grab your heart. Well acted and worth seeing. My only complaint is ts are that the film, at times, is a bit sterile...which is odd considering the events. And, it uses a modern device I hate--the roving camera (hold that camera still #@&@#%^...it's NOT arsty to have bad camera work--particularly on closeups). Still, well worth seeing-- particularly for teens to realize how bad things were and how far we've come.