Monday Night Movie: "Suffragette"

Darien Library presents a new weekly program: Monday Night at the Movies!

This week we are showing “Suffragette."

“Academy Award® nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep star in this powerful drama, inspired by true events, about the women willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early twentieth-century Britain. Galvanized by outlaw fugitive Emmeline (Meryl Streep), Maud (Carey Mulligan) joins the U.K.’s growing Suffragette movement alongside women from all walks of life who sacrificed their jobs, homes, children–and even their lives for the right to vote.” – Focus Features

Director: Sarah Gavron

Year: 2015

Starring: Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts, Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn, Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, Natalie Press as Emily Davison, Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller, Romola Garai as Alice Haughton, Ben Whishaw as Sonny Watts, and Brendan Gleeson as Arthur Steed.

This movie is 1 hour and 46 minutes and is rated PG-13 (for some intense violence, thematic elements, brief strong language and partial nudity).

Watch the official trailer.

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