Spinning Into Butter

you find the thesis of a heavy-handed message film to be wrong in every way.....Even the terrific cast --....A film loaded with characters you loathe is a bad film --....And a film that wants to preach to us before sending us all off with the message.... ... Full Review

It's bizarre and mean-spirited, especially when the film treats Chicago as an oasis of culture and diversity.....Struggling with her own secretive past of prejudice, Sarah hopes to encourage a peaceful summit of ideas and discussion on campus.... ... Full Review

A decade later and "Butter" has curdled into a well-intentioned but talky and overly obvious film that fees like....Gilman (who co-wrote the script) and director Mark Brokaw do their best to open up the play.... ... Full Review

Spinning Into Butter , based on the 1999 play by Rebecca Gilman, was a rotten choice.....You can't blame Sarah Jessica Parker for wanting to get away from her usual Manolo Blahnik-wearing roles.... ... Full Review

Their exchanges form the powerful center of the film.....Spinning Into Butter dives headfirst into the muck and confusion of racism..... ... Full Review

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Into her second year as the Dean of Students at a liberal-minded college in Vermont, Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker) is troubled when she learns of various threats and racially charged notes aimed toward African-American student Simon Brick (Paul James). ... Full Article

A racial hate crime involving a black student at a leafy liberal arts college in Vermont is the centerpiece for the very talky "Spinning into Butter," based, unsurprisingly, on a play - and not a very good one - by... ... Full Article

SARAH Jessica Parker lets fly with the N-word in the racism drama "Spinning Into Butter," in which frank talk about racial grievances leads to a shrug. ... Full Article

A college dean at an elite Vermont university confronts her own racist leanings in "Spinning Into Butter," a drama that will work or not largely depending if you thought "Crash" was revelatory or risible. ... Full Article

Any movie that opens with a quotation from Maya Angelou, follows that with a clip from an old racist cartoon, cuts to someone posting a racial slur on a dorm room door, then immediately serves up Sarah Jessica Parker as... ... Full Article