The Fight

  • Rated PG 13
  • 1hr 36m
  •  (1)
  • 73

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres

Producer:

Eli B. Despres, Peggy Drexler, Josh Kriegman

Release Date:

Jul 31, 2020

Runtime:

1hr 36m

Synopsis

At this defining moment in American history, THE FIGHT follows a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.

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88
Jul 29, 2020

In this engrossing and ultimately inspiring examination of ideals in action, the team behind The Fight wind up illustrating a cardinal rule of nonfiction filmmaking: When it comes to humanizing even the loftiest principles, a documentary lives or dies by its principals.

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Metacritic review by Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
63
Jul 27, 2020

The film justly draws attention to the perpetual work that must go into preserving democratic institutions.

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Metacritic review by Pat Brown
Pat Brown
Slant Magazine
75
Jul 27, 2020

While lawyers read, in one montage, from their mountains of hate mail, there’s not a lot of balance to the film, aside from snippets of Fox News opinionators praising this or that Trump extra-legal executive fiat.

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Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
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