Synopsis
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.
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Cast
- Sarah Jessica ParkerSarah Daniels
- Miranda RichardsonDean Catherine Kenney
- Victor RasukPatrick Chibas
- Jake M. SmithJason
- Beau BridgesDean Burton Strauss
- James RebhornPresident Winston Garvey
- Mykelti WilliamsonAaron Carmichael
- Geoffrey J.D. PayneStudent (uncredited)
Recommandations
- 63
USA Today
Though the movie trails off unsatisfyingly, it raises intriguing and candid, if unanswerable, questions about race relations and political correctness. - 50
Variety
In style and content, Sarah Jessica Parker starrer is the kind of earnest, talky, modestly scaled social-issue pic that seems predestined for the smallscreen. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Despite the film's haphazard choices and aversion to subtlety, Parker and Williamson come off as appealing sparring partners. - 25
Boston Globe
Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness. - 20
The New York Times
Less a movie than an essay. - 20
Village Voice
Approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.
