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Spinning Into Butter is a play that, lapses and all, demands to be experienced, reflected upon, and, if possible, digested." - John Simon, New York. "The drama, alas, is too programmed, the issues mostly familiar and even tepid. I'm afraid that it proved far more challenging in theory."
- Rebecca Gilman
- Spinning into Butter
- Drama
- 1999
Spinning Into Butter is a 2007 drama film written by Rebecca Gilman and Doug Atchison and loosely based on Gilman's play of the same name. It was directed by first-time director Mark Brokaw and produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, who also stars in the film.
In Rebecca Gilman's important new play, Spinning Into Butter, the "villain" is Sarah Daniels (Hope Davis), an attractive, intelligent, well-intentioned dean at a small New England college.
Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter is a brave, honest, intelligent, and important play, which mitigates its being only intermittently well-written. It concerns racism by the educated white...
Directed by Mark Brokaw. A flawed but needed film about the continuing existence of racism and deep-rooted prejudice exposed at a Vermont college campus. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
Jan 1, 2007 · Overview. 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. Mark Brokaw. Director.
SPINNING INTO BUTTER is a searing, comic expose of political correctness at a small Vermont college. A crisis erupts when racist notes are posted on the dorm room door of one of the school's few African-American students.
