Movie
Iron Jawed Angels
Overview
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-01-16
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Blue Dominion Productions Inc., Bluebird House, HBO Films, Spring Creek Pictures, Talent One
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Hilary Swank as Alice Paul
- Vera Farmiga as Ruza Wenclawska
- Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt
- Molly Parker as Emily Leighton
- Margo Martindale as Harriot Blatch
- Frances O'Connor as Lucy Burns
- Lois Smith as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
- Brooke Smith as Mabel Vernon
- Adilah Barnes as Ida Wells-Barnett
- Laura Fraser as Doris Stevens
- Julia Ormond as Inez Millholland
- Patrick Dempsey as Ben Weissman
Crew
- Katja von Garnier - Director
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