Dakota Fanning
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Jan 22, 2007 · The reviews at the time noted the public backlash of the role, and as Slate wrote, "Protesters of the film may be genuinely concerned that acting out a rape scene in a film is traumatic to Fanning." Fanning didn't take too well to her critics.
Jan 23, 2007 · Tue 23 Jan 2007 11.51 EST. Hounddog, a drama about child rape, has sparked controversy at this year's Sundance film festival. Protesters are now calling on the US Department of Justice to...
Sep 12, 2008 · By Julie Bloom. Sept. 12, 2008. IT was known as the “Dakota Fanning rape movie” at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. The press screening for “Hounddog” elicited actual boos, not to mention...
Violence includes the rape scene, a man gets hit by lightening that changes his life forever, snakes bites and gun shots, a dog getting killed. Language is very mild for our time but "bad" in the 50's with racial words and a few other common name calling. Smoking by adults and kids.
Reviews. Dakota Fanning, deep in debris. Roger Ebert September 18, 2008. Tweet. Stranger Lady (Robin Wright Penn, left) befriends Lewellen (Dakota Fanning), who lives in a shack with her crazy Daddy in Hounddog. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch.
This is a bad film. It is not really Dakota's fault, but to be honest I wasn't really impressed with her this time around. I felt like she was a little too much, a little too melodramatic, and definitely not as real as she is in her other films. The real problems with this film lie in the directing, the script, and the pacing.
Jan 23, 2007 · The point of contention is a scene in which 12-year-old Fanning, portraying a 12-year-old girl named Lewellen, is raped by an older boy. “It’s a bad idea on so many levels,” said actress ...
