Born in Flames
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
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Pat Murphy
Kathryn Bigelow
Lizzie Borden
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Cast & crew
Eric Bogosian
CBS technician
Mark Boone Junior
Man on subway
Ron Vawter
FBI Agent
Jacques Sandulescu
Foreman at second site
Kathryn Bigelow
Newspaper editor
Honey
Honey
Adele Bertei
Isabel
Jean Satterfield
Adelaide Norris
Florynce Kennedy
Zella Wylie
Pat Murphy
Newspaper editor
Becky Johnston
Newspaper editor
Hillary Hurst
Leader of Women's Army
Sheila McLaughlin
Other leader
Marty Pottenger
Other leader / Woman at site
Lynne Jones
Other leader
John Coplans
Chief
John Rudolph
TV Newscaster
Warner Schreiner
TV Newscaster
Valerie Smaldone
TV Newscaster
John McLearen
TV Spot Revolution
Pat Place
Woman from Regazza
Julia Hanlon
Woman from Regazza
Maria David
Woman from Phoenix
Towana Starks
Woman from Phoenix
Cat Hightower
Woman from Phoenix
Veronica Campbell
Woman at daycare meeting
Mayumi Sakaguchi
Woman at induction
Ryan
Girl in Subway
Chris Brewer
Girl in Subway
Bill Tatum
Mayor Zubrinsky
Jorge Ramos
Rapist
Julio Pena
Rapist
Merián Soto
Rape victim
Dana Johnson
Woman reading
Jerry Nixon
Adelaide's boss
Gary Valdes
Co-worker
Dirk Zimmer
Co-worker
Gary Hill
Man in truck
Sis McQuade
Woman at site
Susan Sawyer
Woman at site
Sherry Rosso
Woman at site
Donna Allegra Simms
Woman at site
Valerie Jones
Woman at site
Ramona Galindez
Woman at site
Katy Taylor
Woman at site
Marion Benjamin
Woman at site
Joan Ellis
Woman at site
Carolyn Fitzgerald
Woman at site
Belle Chevigny
Belle Gayle
Paul Zonghetti
Agent #2
Alexa Evans
Woman arguing with Honey
Malick N'Diaye
African man
Dolly Udemzue
African woman
Barbara Scott
Woman with machine gun
Hanita
Voice of woman in desert
Diane Jacobs
Woman at secretary strike
Felice Rosser
Woman at secretary strike
Hal Miller
Cop at precinct
Peggy Lee Brennan
Lawyer with Zella
Michael Sullivan
FBI Chief #2
Nancy Reilly
Woman in jail / Woman breaking into CBS
Rosemary Hochschild
Woman in jail
Vanessa Zannis
Woman in jail
Sheila Carr
Woman in jail / Woman breaking into CBS
Ed Bowes
Socialist editor
Allan Ryan
Handgun demo
Kathy Gunst
Woman breaking into CBS
Amy Chen
Woman breaking into CBS
Patrick Brogan
Washington Correspondent
Edmead Smith
Security guard
Daniel Edelman
CBS technician
Mike Bencivenga
CBS technician
Gregory Samuels
CBS technician
Walter Scheuer
President
Paul Chevigny
District Attorney
Joel Kovel
Psychoanalyst
Bill Sturgis
Agent #3
Tom Whittaker
Voice-over news
Lizzie Borden
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CinemaSerf
Somehow or other, the US of A has seen a revolution replace it’s government with a form of left-leaning social democracy that aims to prioritise the needs of just about everyone from feminists to gays but as with any idealistic political system, it is failing to deliver on all of it’s promises. Irritated by these failures, a group of New York women have taken to their radio stations to galvanise the disaffected and mount a counter-revolution to revitalise the original values and bring down the government. Presented in part as if it were a fly-on-the-wall report being given to the likes of J. Edgar Hoover, what now ensues is actually quite relevant in many ways as today’s society deals with arguments about meritocracies, quotas and political correctness. What this isn’t, really, is a very plausible scenario and the idea that an army of militant lesbians could take over a nation of 300 millions is far-fetched. For a start, what would happen to the other, less compliant, women (let’s assume men simply don’t matter here) in the country? A country where religious considerations don’t now feature at all? It must have been quite some coup! The entire concept here reminded me of a student project conceived after a night on the tequila and delivered thanks to the cash they raised during a fresher week thrash. The production is cluttered with thinly veiled allegory, but it’s all so polarising and politically charged that if that’s not your stance then the thing might just end up annoying more than engaging: but the one thing it isn’t is ambiguous. The soundtrack is quite an eclectic mix that at times does much of the heavy lifting which is useful as the dialogue becomes angrily and simplistically repetitious to the point that it labours it’s point just a bit too relentlessly and unrealistically. It is a film that was probably thought-provoking forty years ago, but for me it just comes across now as a bit of an ill-thought out rant.
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