Won't Back Down (2012)

Cast

Oscar Isaac
as Michael Perry
Viola Davis
as Nona Alberts
Holly Hunter
as Evelyn Riske
Maggie Gyllenhaal
as Jamie Fitzpatrick

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Genres & Description

Drama

6.5 / 10

Two determined mothers with children who are failing in an inner city school in Pittsburgh join forces to take back the school, and turn it into a place of learning. But before they can change the school for the better, they must first battle the parents, the school board, and the teachers union. Because this is for their children, they won't back down from this enormous challenge.

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Comments on this trailer
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Shayne Stewart

Good movie like Both Viola Davis and Maggie's performances. Now let's get down to business. We all know the school system is corrupt. Teachers, some do care others are just there.( for the money). Then there's the board of Education(The controller of it all) But this goes to the parents as well. Now I know there's single parents, who work, or both parents But the first duty is your children. - @Sunday, November 11, 2018 11:43 PM

Donald Golden

notice how 3 women in this movie are all related to dc somehow, viola davis (suicide squad) maggie gylanhal (the dark knight) holly hunter (batman vs superman - @Thursday, September 1, 2016 1:48 AM

Kiersten Redenbarger

I want to see this movie everywhere i look i can't find it😪 - @Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:05 PM

Luna Margo

Malia's teacher was exactly like my 10th grade Spanish teacher, they even look similar. - @Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:23 AM

Francisco Rodriguez

Malia's teacher shouldn't be a teacher & has had a series of complaints, same thing with the principal. - @Wednesday, December 9, 2015 12:10 AM

Ella Rose

I was an extra in this movie - @Thursday, July 30, 2015 11:16 PM

jose cruz

I want to see this movie, it looks so good! it reminds me of my son when it took me 2 years to find him a good school for my son he went publicschools pre k up to 2 grade the first public school he learn to write is name and tracing and numbers until they move him out to to other school then special ed there did not allow me observer him so I talk to the higher ups only I can do that if they send cop to hold my hand to do so even though it is law in my state . then there was another time we had meeting with the teacher tells me not worry about the reading I let me worry about it she said oh I was tick off about it. am parent that worries about my kids education he did not even know his abc's all the way all the way reading was tough for him when I put him in charter school going to 8 hours day it helps with my kids he now in 5 grade reading 3 grade lvl math in 5 grade lvl and the teachers work with parents any school that work with parents is a good school any school who wont work with parent and students is not school am parent believes in education will do any thing for there kids like this mom did am very proud parent . - @Monday, July 27, 2015 1:12 AM

Monik07 C

Love it!!! Is a great movie with a powerful message - @Monday, March 2, 2015 4:44 AM

Juliette Hamelle

This is such a good film! I really admire what they do in it :) - @Wednesday, December 24, 2014 3:18 PM

Julia Titze

This trailer always gets me! And I still haven't seen the movie. Unbelievable! - @Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:35 PM

pressure zone

I wish Viola was my teacher she's so hot - @Wednesday, July 16, 2014 8:43 AM

ana muslim

Drama - @Wednesday, June 11, 2014 7:52 AM

Carolyn Truchon

Amazing and moving! This is what education should be about! Get the government out of education and let the experts do their jobs! Well done! - @Sunday, June 8, 2014 4:44 PM

Dani L

So long as no one shows this to Michael Gove, this movie is pretty good - @Monday, June 2, 2014 5:19 PM

Xavier Johnson

i was in that movie - @Monday, June 2, 2014 2:12 PM

Rafa Pulido Aréchiga

I really liked it. - @Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:11 PM

Emma Kellett-Lunney

I saw this movie just today and I fell in love with it. It is such and emotional movie that inspires people like me I really love it! 😆 - @Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:04 AM

AgresorSb341

someone can tell me the name of the song that put in the trailer near the end? - @Sunday, February 9, 2014 6:01 AM

Steampunk Lady of time

Maggie is pretty but has a weird face at the same time. - @Friday, January 17, 2014 6:46 AM

Eric Saunders

This is sinister corporate propaganda - @Monday, December 2, 2013 10:53 PM

ǝsoןnoʎuıʍı

Sounds like a false slander shot at republicans. Rarely those problems in Louisiana Catholic School system. - @Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:27 PM

Mimschi

Instrumental of 'Who You Are' by Jessie J in the beginning. Brilliant. - @Tuesday, October 15, 2013 5:21 PM

Eric Sánchez

I like the smile of Maggie ..!! - @Wednesday, October 9, 2013 3:42 AM

Jenartik

fuck u teachers. the only letters i ever need is U S AND A - @Sunday, September 29, 2013 10:40 AM

sccavie

Yet another Hollywood movie about the "ills" of public education. Demonizing teacher unions is continues to be a distraction from the multitude of endless destructive policies primarily put into place by Republicans hell-bent on continuing their "war" against educating the general public. Yes, the educational (ex. No child left behind) and economic policies sold by to the public by conservatives is the ROOT of the problem...not teacher unions. - @Sunday, September 1, 2013 5:49 PM

ButtSolution

Hell yeah I hate teachers too. Suck it unions! - @Friday, August 23, 2013 6:01 AM

Azalia_theadventurer

I just watched it for the first time! I love this Movie! <3 - @Monday, August 19, 2013 7:12 PM

Dubblecast

Funny enough, I lived in one of the more liberal school districts in Texas, the best preforming one in the state. Conservative parent groups staged a gradual take over; suddenly special education classes became a prison, teen pregnancies skyrocketed once sex education was dismantled to abstinence only, as extra circular activities were removed save for sports. The latest conservative hard on is to dismantle public education, and it wont stop until they have a dumb enough voting base. - @Monday, August 19, 2013 1:51 AM

wenger1972

A film co-produced by Walden Media, a production company owned by Anschutz Entertainment Group, whose owner is Philip Anschutz, a conservative Christian who has a history of giving money to conservative causes such as the Parents Television Council and the Institute for American Values which actively campaigns against same sex marriage. So a film against failing public schools showing teaching unions as corrupt funded by a conservative activist. Tell me there's not an agenda going on here. - @Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:58 PM

11kungfu11

This movie is sponsored by Rupert Murdoch, Is it obvious they are planning to privatise public schooling???? They have been working for some time to destroy education so you dumb fucks will hand over billions of dollars a year to these international criminal cartels. This movie is nothing more then propaganda for the weak minded for when the offer is made that privatised education will have a better standard, but really they want to condition your kids to be worker slaves. Have fun. - @Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:36 AM

Evo Shomar

LOL why? jaja - @Friday, August 2, 2013 8:39 PM

nirvanija

great flick! loved it and yes this is how it should be for our children! - @Thursday, July 25, 2013 6:39 PM

Magnum Tenay

WATCH THIS MOVIE - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:44 PM

Magnum Tenay

The Communist Left has tried to shut this move down from every angle with bad reviews, and Farleft HBO giving it zero stars. VOTE REPUBLICAN Save America from The DNCommunist Pigs and Unions before they turn us into Detroit. - @Sunday, July 21, 2013 2:43 PM

Mark Young

Great flick. This tells the truth failing schools---there are political interests who WANT them to continue failing. It need not be unions, either, but there's always some group sucking at the teat for some big money at the "poor" failing school district. They'll play dirty to keep getting that money despite their failures. - @Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:52 PM

Marley Four

they stole the name from Eminem!!!!!! - @Friday, July 12, 2013 10:54 PM

Smokeybear2985

Keep on thinking with logic young one! We need more people like you to hit adulthood keep it up.. - @Wednesday, July 3, 2013 5:21 PM

JoIsLaBo

who you are by Jessie J - @Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:20 PM

yeung Mox

does anyone know the firs background song in this trailer?? - @Sunday, June 30, 2013 6:08 AM

Smokeybear2985

good fucking call! - @Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:43 PM

Smokeybear2985

What a load of fucking garbage! 1) It is not the teachers in school who are the issue it is the funding of the teachers and the rules placed on them 2) Most childrens learning disabilities come from the PARENTS AT HOME or it comes from the lack of structure due to poor economic situations! 3) You know when you go to a business and they try to force you to pay for EVERYTHING and it is all over priced.. Just think about that before you think private schools are better. - @Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:42 PM

Anton

/watch?v=8TqnchgOucE - a little insight to this movie... - @Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:30 PM

Janet May

It looks sad - @Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:17 PM

Janet May

I want to watch this - @Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:16 PM

claire bear

there nothing compared to me<3 - @Monday, June 3, 2013 3:01 AM

Taylor Smith

This movie was so inspirational. - @Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:51 PM

Kim B

Private schools do not have better teachers. You can take any teacher from a private school. I an certain that they would not last a day in an urban public school. Not a charter school that requires parent participation. You try calling a parent at a an urban public school, the numbers are disconnected, you get hung up on, and there was even a time when I spoke to a mother who denied her child because she didn't care to hear how her child was doing in school. - @Friday, May 17, 2013 12:01 AM

Kim B

People don't understand that there is more to the educational systen than the teachers. Teachers have very little power. People want to blame the unions for the school systems but it is much more complicated. What about disrespectful children that are not allowed to be removed from the class? What about the lack of parent participation? I became a teacher to change the system but I found out very quickly that my power is limited. I dont choose what I teach or how I teach. I get no support. - @Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:59 PM

Ryan Huntington

dis one of my favorites - @Saturday, May 4, 2013 5:47 AM

XAsmooX

I know right :) - @Friday, May 3, 2013 11:45 PM