Skater Girl – Sisterhood, Rebelliousness, Social Castes, and Skateboarding
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.
The Dwelling Place of Light (1920)
After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in love with a stockholder named Brooks Insall, witnesses her mother shoot the boss during the strike, is wrongly imprisoned but exonerated by Insall, and ultimately enjoys a happy future with him, her recovered mother, and her sister Elsie.
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After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in love with a stockholder named Brooks Insall, witnesses her mother shoot the boss during the strike, is wrongly imprisoned but exonerated by Insall, and ultimately enjoys a happy future with him, her recovered mother, and her sister Elsie.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:William H. Clifford
In Theaters:9/12/1920
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Runtime:70 minutes
Studio:Benjamin B. Hampton Productions
Cast
Jack Conway
Director
Claire Adams
Janet Butler
King Baggot
Brooks Insall
Robert McKim
Claude Ditmar
Ogden Crane
Chester Sprole
Lydia Knott
Hannah Butler
George Berrell
Edward Butler
Beulah Booker
Julia Gallagher
William V. Mong
John Gallager
Aggie Herring
Mrs. Gallagher
Nigel De Brulier
James Rolfe
Charles Murphy
Guido Antonelli
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