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Won't Back Down (28-Sep-2012)

Director: Daniel Barnz

Writers: Daniel Barnz; Brin Hill

Keywords: Drama

Two mothers engage in a head-on fight with government bureaucrats to effect change in a local inner-city school.

ABSTRACT
Inspired in part by real-life events surrounding California's parent trigger law, Won't Back Down chronicles the trials and tribulations of two mothers -- one a car dealer and bartender, the other a teacher -- as they attempt to improve the quality of an area inner city school by defying the ways and means of its principal, government bureaucrats, and a corrupt teachers' union. Funded by conservative telecom billionaire Philip Anschutz and touted by charter-school advocate Michelle Rhee, the film was marked by significant controversy upon its release.

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