Maggie Gyllenhaal And Viola Davis Lead Walden’s ‘Still I Rise’

COMMENTS (16)

• Smells and sounds like a big bomb. The director of Beastley how exciting.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 8:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nice job AMANDA Morgan Palmer!

  Comment by Duh! — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 8:20am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hope that this drama is going to be an eye-opener for everybody that the education status is at its crisis level and it really needs further support from the government.

  Comment by Jeff Bridges — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 8:35am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Amen to that!!

    Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 9:44am PDT  Reply to this post

  • The US govt outspends the next 20 governments combined, yet is terrible in education. It’s about parents in America not having a clue to compete with Asians and Indians.

    Comment by what — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 1:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maggie is incredibly gorgeous. I love her. She’s really beautiful and a really sweet girl.

  Comment by Sean Dignam — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 9:23am PDT  Reply to this post

• heard this film is a union-bashing polemic by a staunchly conservative billionaire and shame on any SAG, DGA or IATSE members who sign on to work on this.

  Comment by Allison — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 9:25am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Exactly correct. Wait, from the same shop, for “Cripple Medicare, the Movie” and their TV mini, “Torture’s Cool.”

    Comment by Moneyiseverything — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 10:12am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Oh, you mean it tells it like it is?

    Before everyone gets all tight, please consider that public sector unions are significantly different than private sector unions (SAG, etc), and I say that as a public sector union member myself. Teacher unions are ruining our public school system. No question.

    Comment by Wordygril — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 1:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Allison –
  Be sure to gather factual information before you start posting warnings to members. Have YOU ACTUALLY READ THE SCRIPT? Because i have and it does NOTHING of what you are claiming. There is no union bashing so shame on you for speaking out of turn really.

  Comment by Ben — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 9:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• Sounds like Allison didn’t read the script. Heartfelt and warm story with two wonderful actors

  Comment by yowsa — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 11:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Lovelovelove Viola Davis, but YAWN. I didn’t see Music of the Heart, but I assume it was a similar story?

  Comment by c4x — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 11:09am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why do you assume that our “education system in crisis” means we “need more support from government”? Federal Education funding exploded under Bush and again under Obama. It has expanded for decades. Yet educational attainment is, to put it gently, problematic. Choice and competition strengthen our selection of cars, computers, restaurants, and clothes, yet we seek to maintain a misplaced devotion to a system of educational delivery in stead of opening up the processes to give parents maximum options. The movie sounds uplifting, but it’s said that parents have to battle a bureaucracy instead of being empowered to act with or without them.

  Comment by David Boze — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 11:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Then there’s the rest of us – the mainstream moviegoing audience – who thinks she’s horribly overrated and has a face for public radio.

  Comment by toters — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 12:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Loooove Viola Davis
  The African American Cate Blanchett!

  Comment by dannyboy — Tuesday May 10, 2011 @ 6:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This director also directed the gorgeous and moving PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND.

  Comment by ben — Wednesday May 11, 2011 @ 7:54am PDT  Reply to this post