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Saving Marriage (2008)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:13
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.8/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Three years in the making, Saving Marriage is on the scene as one state grapples with a simple question: Should gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry? You'll hear the personal stories... [More]
Director: Mike Roth, John Henning
Reviews for Saving Marriage
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Saving Marriage makes the deeply personal, powerfully political tussle a thriller with a number of intriguing characters and subplots.
11/07/08
Top CriticEqually effective as a human interest story and political thriller.
10/30/08
Top CriticHigh contrasts, as well as grays in between, structure John Henning and Mike Roth's moving 2006 documentary about the legal and political battles surrounding gay marriage in Massachusetts.
10/27/08
A portrait of democracy in action with high personal stakes and, as such, a moving emotional experience.
10/25/08
A solid, engrossing mix of reportage and human-interest stories.
10/24/08
Top CriticSaving Marriage is an in-the-trenches, defiantly partisan and exuberantly big-hearted movie.
10/24/08
Top CriticLeans on players in the policymaking game as talking heads on issues and tactics, people with a personal stake in the outcome to fully humanize the issue and a few who straddle both categories.
10/23/08
We’ve all heard the story before, but moving discussions with folks like gay-rights lobbyist Arline Isaacson and lively footage of protests and Senate-floor testimonies make this film one wild personal-is-political ride.
10/22/08
Even for those who think they know the full story of Massachusetts' historic same-sex marriage law, this documentary will be a revelation.
10/18/08
Top CriticDocumentarians John Henning and Mike Roth make acutely suspenseful a series of events whose outcome is already known
10/17/08
Top CriticSaving Marriage is a well-meaning but unremarkable documentary.
10/17/08
Top CriticEnthusiastic to open minds and hearts with its multiple tales of injustice, painting a broader portrait of hope that one day all citizens of America will be lawfully regarded as equal no matter their sexual orientation.
10/16/08
Well-intentioned but amateurishly executed, overly sentimental and ultimately dull.
10/16/08
Energetic and unapologetically biased.
10/16/08
Seldom has a film been more aptly titled than Saving Marriage...people on both sides of this issue believe they are, in fact, saving marriage.
10/16/08
The problem here is that, while this seems like a story rife with the drama of ages, it's also a story mired by the drudgery of bureaucracy.
10/10/08
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