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From Time Out New York
Town hall tempers flare in this drama of good intentions but convoluted ideologies, set in a racially scarred Southern town that’s reeling from the arrival of white developers. It’s a familiar formula: Greedy suits touting high-rise schematics and targeting blue-collar citizens end up locking horns with a local firebrand (Bassett). Guess who wins? As a onetime civil-rights soldier, Danny Glover manages to say more with a single look than all of Bassett’s cookie-cutter soapbox routines combined—or for that matter, any of the movie’s preachy Perry Mason–episode polemics.Author: S. James Snyder
Time Out New York Issue 726: August 27 - September 2, 2009
Cast & crew
Cast: Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles
Duration: 99 mins
US Release: Aug 28 2009
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