Salon.com > Maggie Gyllenhaal http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Won’t Back Down”: Why do teachers’ unions hate America? http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/wont_back_down_why_do_teachers_unions_hate_america/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/wont_back_down_why_do_teachers_unions_hate_america/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13021859 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. Maybe it was that actor-y thing where they saw potential in their characters – a feisty, working-class single mom for Gyllenhaal, a sober middle-class schoolteacher for Davis – liked the idea of working together and didn’t think too much about the big picture.

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