The Movie

Iron Jawed Angels, a film created almost entirely by women, depicts the battle of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns fighting for women's right to vote. While it is hard to make a movie based on politics, the movie does a great job at staying historically accurate. 

Quotes from the cast and crew on the movie:

Hillary Swank (Alice Paul): 

''I was sent the script and I read it and I was crying and I was moved and I was inspired and I wanted to call my girlfriends,'' she said. ''I felt reconnected to them.''

''I don't think I've played a character as close to me.''

''I think as Americans we take for granted what the people before us helped to gain -- whether it be our freedom or the rights women now have. It's important to keep making the world a better place for women, because we still have a ways to go.”

Katja von Garnier, the film's director: 

''People have no idea what these women went through. They were thrown into jail, force-fed.''

''The clichéd women who fight for their rights don't have a sense of humor; they're these gray mice. In fact, they're intelligent and, apart from their political consciousness, they can laugh at themselves.''

Sally Robinson, who wrote the final draft of the screenplay:

''The main goal here was, 'Let's make these people come alive. Let's not make this a history lesson.''

Cast

Alice Paul                              Hilary Swank

Lucy Burns                            Frances O'Connor

Inez Mullholland-Boissevain   Julia Ormond

Carrie Chapman Catt             Anjelica Huston           

Emily Leighton                       Molly Parker

Ben Weissman                       Patrick Dempsey

Doris Stevens                         Laura Fraser

Mabel Vernon                        Brooke Smith

Ruza Wenclawska                  Vera Farmiga

Anna Howard Shaw               Lois Smith

Harriot Blatch                         Margo Martindale

Senator Leighton                     Joseph Adams

Ida Wells-Barnett                   Adilah Barnes

Mrs. Paul                               Carrie Snodgress

President Woodrow Wilson    Bob Gunton

Crew

Director           

Katja von Garnier

Executive Producers

Paula Weinstein

Len Amato

Robin Forman

Lydia Dean Pilcher

Co-Producers  

Laura McCorkindale

Denise Pinckley

Jim Bigwood

Screenplay      

Sally Robinson

Eugena Bostwick Singer

Raymond Singer

Jennifer Friedes

Story by           

Jennifer Friedes

Director of Photography         

Robbie Greenberg, ASC

Production Designer   

Norries Spencer

Costume Desinger      

Caroline Harris

Music by      

    

Johnny Klimek

Reinhold Heil

Songs by          

Jasmin Tabatabai

Editor  

Hans Funck

Casting            

Janet Hirshenson, C.S.A.

Jane Jenkins, C.S.A.

Liz Marks