Double Dare

This is a pretty cool and interesting documentary if you understand the subject matter going into it. The movie primarily takes a look at two Holllwood stunt woman: Jeannie Epper, who doubled for Lynda Carter during the Wonder Woman series run,... Full review

I saw this film when it appeared in Chicago and found it entertaining, amusing, and totally real. These are real women, and the courage and talent of these women who perform potentially dangerous stunts is awe inspiring. This movie truly captures... Full review

This movie completely blew me away--and I'm not easily impressed. It is so much fun and so joyful and inspiring, especially to women. I'd highly recommend it to anyone. I saw it at the Independent Fim Festival of Boston in 2004... Full review

I attended a press screening of 'Double Dare', so I got to meet this film's director and editor as well as the documentary's main subjects -- Jeannie Epper and Zoë Bell -- and to participate in Q&A. I sceptically asked if... Full review

Don't let the current score on this wonderful documentary scare you off. As the last commenter said I think someone who was a bit vindictive must have run amok. Read the positive comments posted here and see that everyone who has... Full review

Double Dare is an excellent funky cool inspiring documentary! It features two rocking stunt women. One was a pioneer who worked on wonder woman and is now in her sixties and the other is most well know for her several years... Full review

I had the pleasure of seeing this film at Toronto's International Film Festival in 2004. Not only was I impressed by the film, but so were the two guys I saw it with. "I'm a guy, and I feel empowered!" is... Full review

The storyline of the two stunt women in Double Dare was compelling and fun. It was well paced: up, down, sideways and all with outrageous stunts going on as a side dish. The main course here is seeing two people trying... Full review

In case you didn't already know, Double Dare is a documentary about two Hollywood stuntwomen--the Xena and Wonderwoman who really encounter danger (within five minutes of the film, one of them is lit on fire... on purpose.) I don't know what... Full review

DOUBLE DARE chronicles the ultimately intersecting lives of two stunt women, a graceful, aging veteran and an ingénue-like up and comer. Somehow, in a reasonable chunk of time, the filmmaker tackles the unveiling of two distinct personalities and histories. She then... Full review

The film looks crisp and clear, but keep in mind....As it stands, Double Dare is content to focus on its two extremely likable leads....it's refreshing to see a factual flick....It's actually quite touching, truth be told, which is part of what makes Double Dare such a disarmingly entertaining little documentary..... ... Full Review

Ultimately, they are what makes the film better than it should be. The film fails to address sexism in the movie industry, which would seem timely for a film that profiles two of the movies' top female stunt performers. ... Full Review

Ms. Bell was working as a stunt double for the formidable Lucy Lawless, the star of the defunct television series "Xena....this preternaturally cheerful daredevil crashes through a plate-glass window like some Tinker Bell turned Ninja assassin.....With its cornball plots and silly theme song, the show looks pretty bad now.... ... Full Review

Ms. Bell was working as a stunt double for the formidable Lucy Lawless, the star of the defunct television series "Xena....With its cornball plots and silly theme song, the show looks pretty bad now.... ... Full Review

DOUBLE DARE is well worth watching not just because it is about the curiosity of "stuntgirls" jumping from tall heights into huge inflatable bags because Epper and Bell are worth gettng to know and worth rooting for as well. Bell and Epper meet during the course of DOUBLE DARE and this is perhaps the most rewarding part of watching this film: that the veteran and the newcomer genuinely interact and enjoy each other's company thus underlying what is so interesting about stunt performers in films. ... Full Review

Not that we needed another example of the disparities between men and women in Hollywood (or anywhere else, for that matter), but "Double Dare," Amanda Micheli's latest girl-power documentary, brings to light yet another plight of the fairer sex in... ... Full Article

Double Dare is a documentary style film that was released in 2004 from director Amanda Micheli. The subject for the film involves women who work as stunt doubles in the Hollywood film industry. ... Full Article

There is still a great big glass ceiling in Hollywood. While stuntwomen have been active in the industry for nearly 50 years, their occupation is the last chauvinist sticking point on most major movie shoots. ... Full Article

companion piece to Ruth Leitman's recent Lipstick and Dynamite , Amanda Micheli's Double Dare also sheds light on heretofore-unsung women toiling away in a male-dominated segment of the entertainment industry. ... Full Article

Amanda Micheli's documentary about the dangerous, exhilarating lives of professional stuntwomen is less a history of a specialty that scarcely existed before the '70s - men habitually donned wigs and dresses to double for women - than a portrait of... ... Full Article

In a male-dominated industry -- filmmaking -- there's probably not a specialty more fueled by testosterone than stuntwork, and the women who choose this bruise- and discrimination-ridden path are exactly as tough as you'd expect. ... Full Article