Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.
Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives. The film also stars Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai, and Natalie Press. SUFFRAGETTE is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Emmy Award winner Abi Morgan. 
The MV Film Society, along with the League of Women Voters of MV, will be hosting Fredie Kay, Esq., Chair of the MA Women’s Suffrage Celebration Committee [WSCC], at the November 21st (7:30 PM) screening of the recently released movie, SUFFRAGETTE. Ms. Kay will speak about the events being planned during the 95th Anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage in the US and the passage of the 19′” Amendment and the Centennial milestone in 2020. Following the movie, there will be a brief Q&A about the WSCC and background on the making of the movie.
“It’s written, shot and acted with a hot-blooded urgency that reminds you the struggle it depicts is an ongoing one – and which shakes up this most well-behaved of genres with a surge of civil disobedience.” -Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
“Director Sarah Gavron’s celebratory chronicle would inspire strong reactions even if it wasn’t much of a movie, but the filmmaker compliments her powerful tale with the immediacy of her filmmaking and performances on the same level. It’s an unabashed message-driven story that imbues the past with modern power.” -Eric Cohn, indieWIRE
