Weighing in at well over two hours, there should have plenty of time to tell this important milestone in the history of suffrage in a engaging way. Instead, director Leigh chooses to extend too many scenes beyond their natural length to fill out the running time and populate it with two dimensional, often declamatory, caricatures. There's one positive in all of the speechifying - it does serve to illustrate just how much biblical language influenced the timbre and content of the written and spoken word at the time.Verdict: Overlong and strangely lacking historical drama
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