Battle in Seattle R
Six lives, six battles, one city.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 4, 2017
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Echo Bridge
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Liotta, Charlize Theron & Woody Harrelson | |
Performer: | Jennifer Carpenter, Isaach De Bankolé, Martin Henderson, Joshua Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Michelle Rodriguez & Channing Tatum | |
Directed by | Stuart Townsend | |
Screenwriting by | Stuart Townsend | |
Composition by | Robert Del Naja & Neil Davidge | |
Produced by | Kirk Shaw, Maxime Remillard, Mary Aloe & Stuart Townsend | |
Director of Photography: | Barry Ackroyd |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Battle in Seattle is a childish, ineffectively manipulative piece of self-serious agitprop about the four-day World Trade Organization meetings in 1999.
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Washington Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Actor-turned-filmmaker Stuart Townsend would have been better off keeping things on a more modest scale. There are just too many characters here.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
To his credit, Townsend illustrates everyone's perspectives, from the WTO participants to the protestors to the police and even the innocent public caught in the crossfire.
Box Office
... a conventional drama about the unconventional protest landmark: the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington, a real event explored through the familiar fictional stories of various protesters, delegates and bystanders.
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Seanax.com
Approaching its subject with a neat idealism and packaging its political fervor in the most facile of forms, the film boasts a cast loaded with Hollywoods both new and old and wraps its message up with eye-rolling naivete.
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indieWire
What I think the movie failed to do was the thing it had to do most, which was explain what is the WTO and why in Stuart Townshend's opinion, is it bad.
At the Movies
Rating: 2/5 --
Actor-turned writer-director Stuart Townsend makes great use of the documentary footage of the '99 Seattle WTO riots. And he gets across his talking points about this shadowy outfit, too. It's a shame his script and all his actor friends get in the way.
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Orlando Sentinel
Product Description:
Actor Stuart Townsend (HEAD IN THE CLOUDS) makes an accomplished writing and directing debut with BATTLE IN SEATTLE, a fictionalized account of the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings and protests in Seattle. After a lightning-quick lesson in WTO history and growing globalization concerns, we meet a cross-section of concerned individuals who will be affected by the events to come. These include hopeful activists (Martin Henderson and Michelle Rodriguez), a popular TV reporter (Connie Nielsen), a local police officer and his pregnant wife (Woody Harrelson and Charlize Theron), and a doctor anxious to raise AIDS awareness (Rade Serbedzija) at the meetings. We also meet Mayor Tobin of Seattle (Ray Liotta), who initially works with protestors to ensure peaceful demonstrations and a successful WTO conference. But when the demonstrators shut down the conference, and anarchists begin vandalizing the city, the mayor and police are pressured to make their own show of force. In the ensuing chaos and violence the different characters are forced to confront their convictions and motivations. Some will take sides with the protestors, some will be irrevocably changed, and some will find the strength to ensure that all voices are heard by the WTO. Mixing actual footage and multiple fictional storylines, Townsend's ambitious effort pays off in evenly addressing matters of both global importance and personal resonance. Filled with excellent performances and a message of cautious optimism, BATTLE IN SEATTLE is also quick to remind us that we need such upheavals to bring us together and get our world on a positive path.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 37,474
- UPC: 096009453541
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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