[A] passionate meditation on the fiery issue.
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10/03/07
Lake of Fire (2007)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:48
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Lake of Fire's engaging interviews and powerful black-and-white visuals make for a riveting and honest documentary about a very controversial topic.
Runtime: 2 hrs 32 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Director Tony Kaye (AMERICAN HISTORY X) helms this black-and-white documentary about one of the most controversial issues in America: abortion.
Director: Tony Kaye
Reviews for Lake of Fire
One lesson of Lake of Fire is the galvanizing power of the visual image. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes pictures are not enough.
10/03/07
Top Criticit's hard to imagine a more honest and clear-headed documentary that's been made or will be made on the subject of abortion.
10/02/07
A provocatively beautiful movie on the hottest hot-button issue in American life: a woman's right to an abortion.
10/02/07
This sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film [is] more important than ever.
10/01/07
An absorbing doc that punctuates the idea that abortion, legal or banned, is not a black-and-white issue but is in a political gray zone.
09/30/07
Lives up to its promise of definitiveness...a significant piece of journalism.
09/25/07
Tony (American History X) Kaye's ambitious docu is a powerful mixture of ethical, philosophical, political, and religious viewpoints about the controversial abortion debate in the U.S., aspiring to be a definitive work on the contentious subject.
09/23/07
Tony Kaye (American History X) docu is a powerful mixture of ethical, philosophical, and religious viewpoints about the controversial, divisive abortion debate in the U.S.
09/23/07
Lake wants to break through decades of encrusted rhetoric to make us think again. With one slow reveal of Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. 'Jane Roe,' the movie upends all you assumed about this subject.
04/26/07
Handsomely filmed on silvery 35mm and high-definition by Kaye himself, the shrewdly edited pic balances a full spectrum of views from all sides of the abortion debate without obviously taking a position itself.
09/20/06
Top CriticSmart, visually appealing, and consistently engaging.
09/15/06
Top CriticHere's a fun game you can play: Try to guess the political stance of the interviewee before Kaye slams their name and affiliation. You'll be right way more often than you'll be wrong.
09/14/06
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