Celebrate Women’s Equality Day And SUFFRAGETTE Movie In Theaters In October

Today, we’re inviting you to join us to share the significance of both Women’s Equality Day on August 26 and the upcoming release of SUFFRAGETTE on October 23 by wearing the colors of suffrage – PURPLE, for dignity and ability, GREEN for hope, and WHITE for purity – this Wednesday and encouraging friends around you to do the same.

Women’s Right To Vote

August 26, 2015, marks the 95th anniversary of the admission of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the victory the Woman Suffrage Movement had worked so hard for. After 72 years of countless suffrage protests, petitions, speeches, pamphlets, and nights spent in jail, on August 26, 1920, women had won the right to vote and the Suffrage movement had finally accomplished its goal.

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Violet Miller (Anne-Marie Duff) and Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) campaign for women’s voting rights in
director Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Steffan Hill / Focus Features

WE OWE OUR RIGHT TO VOTE IN THIS COUNTRY TO THE WOMEN WHO CAME BEFORE US.

You will be once again encouraged, inspired to do more in your life today. And the music score in SUFFRAGETTE will take your breath away. Watch this trailer to get a sneak peak to what’s to come in October on a Big Screen!

Women’s Voting Rights Were Fought For

Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain.

The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing Suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life.

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Carey Mulligan (left) stars as Maud Watts and Anne-Marie Duff (right) stars as Violet Miller
in director Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Steffan Hill / Focus Features

When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow Suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women’s civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation.

Inspired by true events, “Suffragette” is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote.

Suffragette Movement for Women’s Equality

A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

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Carey Mulligan stars as Maud Watts in director Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Steffan Hill / Focus Features

These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing.

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Carey Mulligan stars as Maud Watts in director Sarah Gavron’s SUFFRAGETTE, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Steffan Hill / Focus Features

Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.

The film also stars Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai, and Natalie Press. “Suffragette” is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Abi Morgan.

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28 Comments

  1. Omg this sounds like it’s really going to be a great movie! Can’t wait for it to hit theaters so I can see it!

  2. I’ve never heard of this movie until today. I am interested in seeing it when it comes out. I absolutely adore Carey Mulligan and I’m so intrigued by costuming from this era.

  3. I’m so out of the loop on new movies. I hadn’t heard of this one but it sounds like the type of movies I like. I have got to see this and take my daughter.

  6. It was interesting to learn about the meaning behind the different colors. I was not aware of this before. Very cool that they made a movie regarding this topic.

  10. I am really looking forward to seeing this movie. I am a big fan of Carey Mulligan and this is such an interesting subject to me.

  12. I have not heard of this movie yet. I will have to go with a bunch of girlfriends to see SUFFRAGETTE.

  13. I can’t wait till October to watch this movie!! It sounds perfect for my little history buffs too! 😉

  15. I love watching films that are inspirational. It makes me feel good after watching such films. I think the husband would be interested to watch this movie too.

  16. Oh wow this sounds like a great movie. I think it’s my kind too, so I’ll for sure have to check it out. I hadn’t heard of it until now but I want to see it.

  18. This sounds like a great movie. This is the kind of movie that I love to watch. I’ll be seeing this, for sure.

  21. I can hardly wait to see this movie. Sometimes, as women, we take for granted the rights that we have today, but those brave women went through so much for us.

  25. I’m a Mom of 3 little girls so women’s rights and equality issues are very important to me. All 4 of us wore green, purple, and white today for some fun celebrating women’s equality! I’m looking forward to #Suffragette in October!

  28. This looks like a great movie. I like movies that have a great historical background. It helps me to appreciate what have not and not take it for granted.

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