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Spinning Into Butter (film)

Spinning Into Butter
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Promotional film poster
Directed by Mark Brokaw
Produced by Roger Howe
Sarah Jessica Parker
Ryan Howe
Norman Twain
Daniel Hank
Written by Rebecca Gilman
Doug Atchinson
Starring Sarah Jessica Parker
Mykelti Williamson
Miranda Richardson
Beau Bridges
Distributed by Screen Media Films
Release date
  • July 16, 2008 (2008-07-16) (Australia)
  • March 2009 (2009-03) (United States)

Spinning Into Butter is a 2008 drama film written by Rebecca Gilman and loosely based on her play of the same title. It was directed by first-time director Mark Brokaw and produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, who also stars in the film. Spinning Into Butter was sold for distribution Cannes Film Market on May 17, 2007 and opened in the U.S. in March, 2009. The film concerns political correctness and racial identity.

When a New England liberal arts college experiences a hate crime against one of its few black students, the school's dean of students (Parker) must respond publicly to the incident while privately confronting her own latent racism and prejudice.

As of March 2010, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 16% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 31 reviews with an average score of 3.6/10. The site's consensus of reviews was:



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