Had to watch this shit in 10th grade because my teacher was a feminist bitch. Still, it could've been worse.

This does not commit the sin of big-screen modern chick pictures -- _A Thousand Acres_ and _One True Thing_ come to mind -- of being all about, "Oh, We Wymyn Are So Pure And Noble, And Men All Suck". The pacing, direction, use of color, and use of music are pretty jaunty, actually. They wanted to avoid doing yet another stodgy period piece ("a brown movie", as the director puts it); instead, they went for "Butch and Sundance get the vote". They did it. It works

Well-acted, well-scripted account of the battle for women's suffrage, told from the women's side with some enthusiasm.

every woman should see this