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September Dawn (2007)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:7
Rotten:47
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: With its jarring editing, dull love story, and silly dialogue, September Dawn turns a horrific historical event into a banal movie.
Theatrical Release: Aug 24, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $1.1M
Synopsis: On September 11, 1857 in an unspoiled valley of the Utah Territory-and in the name of God-120 men, women and children were savagely murdered.Who... [More]
Starring: Jon Voight, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Jon Gries
Director: Christopher Cain
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REVIEWS FOR SEPTEMBER DAWN
Top CriticThe villainous turns by Jon Voight (as a hard-hearted Mormon bishop) and Terence Stamp (as a bloodthirsty Brigham Young) would have been more fun if they weren't part of such a clumsy campaign to lay this tragedy at the church's doorstep.
Dec 3, 2007
Top CriticPredictable, obvious, often silly.
Nov 8, 2007
Drama may benefit from attention to history, but history doesn’t always make for good drama.
Oct 16, 2007
Contriving a faux Romeo and Juliet romance as a point of entry for the audience shows how unimaginative the filmmakers are, and how blandly and uninvolving it plays shows how fairly clueless they are in going about their game plan.
Sep 5, 2007
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Sep 1, 2007
Muddled, sloppy, and obfuscating.
Aug 31, 2007
For all the guns fired in the film, [director] Cain aims the largest one at his foot—and pulls the trigger again and again.
Aug 30, 2007
An already thin veneer of historical truth wears off fairly quickly in this surprisingly dull and melodramatic low-budget western.
Aug 30, 2007
The workmanlike craftsmanship of Cain's filmmaking almost (but never quite) smooths over the ham-fisted way he conceives the story.
Aug 30, 2007
Top CriticThere was another 9/11 horror. But it happened 150 years ago.
Aug 29, 2007
A plodding and highly questionable history lesson.
Aug 29, 2007
Top CriticIt's a toss-up as to whether September Dawn is more offensive as history, as allegory or simply as lousy self-important filmmaking.
Aug 29, 2007
With its complete lack of empathy for early Mormons and simplistic rendering of historical figures, September Dawn is that rare movie that actually deserves whatever condemnation might come from religious groups.
Aug 27, 2007
The director's overreaching attempts at social commentary with hackneyed devices weaken the veracity of the source material and leave the film open to interpretation as propaganda.
Aug 26, 2007
Often gripping and fascinating, it's bound to create waves of controversy.
Aug 25, 2007
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Aug 25, 2007
An asinine chunk of Mormonsploitation that mixes historical fact with fictional romance and bald-faced anti-Mormon prejudice.
Aug 24, 2007
For all its cinematic weaknesses, I left the theatre weeping. “Now you know how I feel when I see holocaust films,” my Jewish husband told me gently as he wiped away my tears.
Aug 24, 2007
Religious and thematic issues aside, September Dawn is well-crafted as a revisionist Western with a message.
Aug 24, 2007
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