Won't Back Down (2012) on Netflix
Jamie Fitzpatrick, a bartender and car dealer, and Nona Alberts, a teacher, both have children failing at a Pittsburgh school. They join forces to change it despite an entrenched bureaucracy.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.4/107,044 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes35%
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Plot summary
Jamie Fitzpatrick works as a bartender and a car dealer, and Nona Alberts is a teacher. The two women live on opposite sides of the social and economic track, and both have children who are failing at an inner-city school in Pittsburgh. They join forces to take over the school and make it a place of learning. To do that they must battle the school board, the parents and the teachers union, and a bureaucracy set in traditional thinking. Evelyn Riske, the union president, resists them. Jamie and Nona also want to renew the commitment of teachers who have lost their enthusiasm for the work.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Won't Back Down (2012)
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- According to Box Office Mojo, the film had the worst opening-weekend performance of any film opening in more than 2,500 theaters, taking just $1,035 per screen, a record that stood until Victor Frankenstein broke it in 2015.
- The film is loosely based on the 2010 use of California's parent trigger law in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, where groups of parents tried to take over failing public schools; the law let parents petition to overrule administrators of under-performing schools.
- Holly Hunter's role in the film marked her first film appearance in seven years, following The Incredibles and The Big White.
