“Won’t Back Down”: Why do teachers’ unions hate America?
"Won't Back Down" is an offensive, lame, union-bashing drama, which somehow stars Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal
TOPICS: LABOR, MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, MOVIES, TEACHERS, TEACHERS UNIONS,THE LABOR MOVEMENT, VIOLA DAVIS, WON'T BACK DOWNENTERTAINMENT NEWS,POLITICS NEWS,
So teachers’ unions don’t care about kids. Oh, and luck is a foxy lady. This is what I took away from the inept and bizarre “Won’t Back Down,” a set of right-wing anti-union talking points disguised (with very limited success) as a mainstream motion-picture-type product. Someone needs to launch an investigation into what combination of crimes, dares, alcoholic binges and lapses in judgment got Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal into this movie. Neither of them seems likely to sympathize with its thinly veiled labor-bashing agenda and, way more to the point, I thought they had better taste.