Spinning Into Butter (2007)

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Spinning Into Butter was released on March 27, 2009, in the USA. The American drama film was produced by Whitsett Hill Films. The movie storyline was written by Doug Atchison, and directed by Mark Brokaw. [1]. The film is based on Rebecca Gilman's Broadway play in 1999[2].

Plot

Sarah in Spinning into Butter[3]

At Belmont College, Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker) is appointed to be the dean. In the second year, she tries to assist a gifted student, Patrick Chibas (Victor Rasuk), to get a scholarship. She tells him to claim as a Hispanic race though he wants to be called Puerto Rican from New York when the scholarship committee asks him. Not after then, racism goes wild as Simon Brick (Paul James), an African American student, got a racist note on the door of his locker. Eventually, the polices investigate the news with the university president (James Rebhorn) and deans (Miranda Richardson and Beau Bridges). The riot then occurs between races and Dean Parker's past exposed. She was a teacher in one of the schools in Lancaster where major students are African Americans. Her paranoia and prejudice towards African Americans raise due to an incident at the school. For that reason, he moves to Belmont College where most students are white. In the end, she makes a ten-point list to resolve the racism in Belmont College[4].

Controversy

The movie shows that racism and prejudice still exist in college. It is shown in the scene when Simon got racist notes. What even worse is the college tries to keep the non-white students to be silenced especially African Americans. One of the scenes also shows that one of the white students tells black students that a ghetto is a place for African Americans to belong. The conflict even causes a race riot between the white students and non-white students including African American students[5].

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