Shut Up & Sing is a rockumentary which travels with the Dixie Chicks from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing-darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time through to the infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. The film follows the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats while continuing to live their lives have children and of course make music. At a time when the US is fighting for democracy and freedom of speech in other countries the film is a poignant reminder that speaking your mind in the West isn't always appreciated.
The Oscar winning film documents the events surrounding the coal miners'' strike against the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County. Caused when the mine owners refused to recognize the mine workers decision to join a Union leading to violent battles between gun-toting company thugs and the picketing miners.
Some lines aren't meant to be crossed... They were done with playing it safe. When Allison (Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) leave their rich suburb for a joyride through East L.A. they glimpse a frightening landscape of drugs violence and gang brutality. But as their fear turns to infatuation the friends find themselves seduced by the dark and dangerous world - where a pretty girl can get anything she wants... except a second chance. Two-time Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple and Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan deliver a stunningly gritty and riveting erotic thriller about L.A. teens with a taste for the forbidden. Starring Anne Hathaway in a searing sexy and utterly unexpected role Havoc is one of the most shocking and controversial films of the year!
After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behaviour: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy RodrÃguez), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swears, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and directed by Oscar winners Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (American Dream), Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior crazy/beautiful, and was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behaviour: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy RodrÃguez), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swears, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and directed by Oscar winners Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (American Dream), Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior crazy/beautiful, and was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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