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Movie Info

In the heart of Ethiopia five women fight for their lives.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Mary Olive Smith
Producer:

Mary Olive Smith, Steven Engel
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 26, 2020
Runtime:

1h 25m
Production Co:

Nova

Cast & Crew

Mary Olive Smith
Director

Mary Olive Smith
Producer

Mary Olive Smith
Cinematographer

Steven Engel
Producer

Steven Engel
Executive Producer

Paula Apsell
Executive Producer

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News & Interviews for A Walk to Beautiful

Critics Consensus: Gold is a Fool’s Paradise, Roscoe is Not Welcome

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Critic Reviews for A Walk to Beautiful

All Critics (19) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (2)

Will leave you speechless two times over -- first with despair, then with joy.

February 29, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
The filmmakers' restraint is admirable in this era of overheated editorializing.

February 21, 2008

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
A complex and quietly devastating indictment of chauvinist societies that see women as lovers, mothers and servants, and treat anyone who can(TM)t fulfill those roles as a nonperson.

February 8, 2008 | Rating: 5/5

Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
Fernando Meirelles take note: an honest and unvarnished portrayal of your subject, no matter the intended audience, is the most optimal path toward enlightenment and empathy.

February 7, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
Mary Olive Smith and Amy Bucher feel no need to overlay this health-care calamity with pious outrage.

February 5, 2008

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
If pic's B.O. potential seems slight, the same can't be said of the film's impact on awareness of Africa, altruism and the lifelong misery caused by reparable medical conditions in areas where the closest road can mean a three-day hike.

January 8, 2008

John Anderson
Variety
A powerful, resonant, cautionary tale.

December 31, 2009 | Rating: 80/100 | Full Review…

Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
Five young Ethiopian women doomed to social ostracism and physical misery because of 'obstetric fistulas' walk miles to get treatment and reclaim their lives, and in doing so, march straight into our hearts.

May 26, 2009 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Jennifer Merin
About.com
... a beautiful and uplifting film...[and] Ethiopia has never appeared more beautiful than in this film's cinematography by Smith, Tony Hardmon and Jerry Risius.

September 21, 2008 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Sarah Boslaugh
Playback:stl
A most righteous cause, but one has to wonder if this is a documentary film, or an infomercial for the subject hospital

March 4, 2008 | Rating: 5/10

Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics
This is the real life that young African natives face, emotionally told by 5 young women, devastated and isolated by obstetric fistula, and their hopeful search for a cure.

February 10, 2008 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…

Tony Medley
tonymedley.com
[Director Mary Olive] Smith makes no pretense of keeping a dispassionate distance from her subject: Her film is an unabashed call to action that shines a spotlight on a problem whose intimate medical nature relegated it to the shadows.

February 8, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide

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Audience Reviews for A Walk to Beautiful

Jan 03, 2010

Heartbreaking yet hopeful. One never realizes how lucky they are until they see what others go through... and this film really shows what it's like for these women. Congrats to those that run the hospitals and donate their time and energy into such a great purpose.

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