Product Details

• Actors: Beau Bridges, Becky Ann Baker, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Rebhorn, Miranda Richardson
• Directors: Mark Brokaw
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Screen Media
• DVD Release Date: June 9, 2009
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00242KD0O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,538 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/09/2009 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm Impressed, November 20, 2009

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G. Jennings "G. J." (Outside) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spinning into Butter (DVD)

I had never heard of this story, nor did I know it was originally a play by Rebecca Gilman. I saw the DVD in the video store with Sarah Jessica Parker on the front cover.

The movie does keep a bit of a play atmosphere, and the topics are spot on. Prepare to be provoked and get buttons pushed. I thought it was a refreshingly blunt piece - better than "Crash" - in my opinion, and the story is engaging. None of that abstract hidden agenda stuff. It gets right to the point and drags the issue out into the open.

Basic plot: a hate crime is committed at a New England college which sends the school into media chaos and causes the Dean of Students (Sarah Jessica Parker) to have to deal with her own issues of race.

Sarah Jessica does a pretty decent job in this, and so does Mykelti Williamson. Their on screen chemistry is great.

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't quite work, January 11, 2012

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Viva (So. Cal.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spinning into Butter (DVD)

Not only does the plot and motive make no sense, but many of the actors overemote as if they were still on a stage. The rest of it is just plain preachy and annoying.

1.0 out of 5 stars Unbelieveable Plot, December 20, 2011

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George Augst "BroGeo" (Brainerd, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spinning into Butter (DVD)

Does the writer actually think that people think this way? I found this picture mind boggling.
Her reaction to her experience at the Chicago school is skitzo. The bottom line message of the film is: If someone appears to be a nice person but they are a different color than you, then they are probably a racist. Isn't this attitude Racism of the worst Kind????????