Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 7.0/10/10 (248 votes votes)
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: Pantheon Entertainment Corporation
Sound: SDDS, DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
MPAA: R for language and some violent images.
Director(s): Tony Goldwyn
Producer(s):
Markus Barmettler – executive producer
Anthony Callie – executive producer
Ed Cathell III – co-producer
Dama Claire – co-producer
Tony Goldwyn – producer
Andrew S. Karsch – producer
Alwyn Kushner – executive producer
Myles Nestel – executive producer
Tim Smith – executive producer
Andrew Sugerman – producer
Hilary Swank – executive producer
Writer(s):
Pamela Gray – (written by)
Cast:
Hilary Swank – Betty Anne Waters
Sam Rockwell – Kenny Waters
Thomas D. Mahard – Law Professor (as Thomas Mahard)
Owen Campbell – Ben
Conor Donovan – Richard
Laurie Brown – Law Professor #2
John Pyper-Ferguson – Aidan
Minnie Driver – Abra Rice
Ele Bardha – Don
Melissa Leo – Nancy Taylor
Music: Paul Cantelon
Tagline: An extraordinary journey of how far we go to fight for our family.
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Going in I knew what the story was about, a woman who completes hereducation to free the brother who she believes was wrongly convicted ofmurder. I'd read that Waters, (Swank's character) finishes high schooland college and goes to law school; there is a passing comment abouther getting her GED, we then see a classroom filled with people youngerthan she; the professor calls on her and asks, "What is acontract?"…all of a sudden she's in law school? Swank is married, andhas two children, we don't know what the husband does, but if herclothes are any indication, he's doing okay. She and her husband arehaving problems, on a visit to her brother in prison, she's not wearingher wedding band; in a later scene she is wearing it, subsequently theydivorce. At this point their two sons are probably 11 and 13, fouryears later they're still the same size. These are just a few of thethings that really annoyed me about the film, coupled with a runningtime of an hour and forty five minutes during which flaws in a moretightly edited film would not have been nearly as glaring.
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