Sentences with phrase «button issue films»
That leaves some of the other social justice / hot button issue films perhaps on the outside looking in.
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«Precious: Based On The Novel «Push» By Sapphire» (2009) Most of the films on this side of the list have been crowd - pleasers to one degree or another, so it's all the more impressive that Lionsgate did so well with Lee Daniels ««Precious,» given that the film includes domestic abuse, incest and rape among its many button - pushing issues.
Skander Halim's script is a real mouthful; at times delightfully bitchy, it touches on a wide swath of hot - button issues and topics, and like, say, Donnie Darko, hearteningly shows the cruel underbelly of adolescent life in a way that mainstream studio films do not, and also the way that teens craftily exploit one another's obliviousness.