yelling to the sky is a 2011 american drama film written and directed by victoria mahoney .

the film premiered in competition at the 61st berlin international film festival , were it competed for the golden bear .

yelling to the sky

zoe kravitz plays a teen at a crossroads in ‘yelling to the sky . ’
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yelling to the sky is all id . a visceral trip that hits you in the mouth from its opening frames , and grips onto you , unrelentingly until the cathartic close .
the film sincerely strives for emotional maturity , but without a discernible narrative , comprehensible character motivations , or a thematic thread to latch onto , “yelling to the sky” merely whimpers with unfocused gloom .
and , as another aside , speaking of precious , one noteworthy factoid ; correcting what we all believed when it was made public that she had a role in the film , gabourey sidibe actually got the part in yelling to the sky before most of us even knew about lee daniels’ adaptation of sapphire’s novel . we long believed that gabourey’s participation in yelling to the sky was due in some part to her performance in precious . not quite the case .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken yelling to the sky official trailer # 1 ( 2012 ) - gabourey sidibe , zoe kravitz movie hd as her family falls apart , seventeen year old sweetness o ' hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain .
this is what i related to and why – despite its flaws – i’m so thankful for yelling to the sky . i may be a white woman and i may not have made the same choices sweetness made , but it showed me i wasn’t alone . it felt cathartic watching .
yelling
is a prosaic look at a hard life . like sweetness , the movie finds its way by instinct .
what i came to realize , hours after i first screened the film , was that , the initial unexplainable reaction i felt in watching it , was more akin to numbness – a numbness that was brought on by the assault on the senses and emotions that yelling to the sky is ; but that’s actually a good thing , so stay with me here for a little bit .
writer - director victoria mahoney’s film aims for rawness , shining a harsh spotlight on an underprivileged teen’s desperate search for parental acceptance and personal dignity . but “yelling to the sky” is a mess . it’s a structural shambles , as if the bleakest footage from the o’hara family home videos were cut - up , shuffled , and blindly spliced back together without rhyme or reason . it’ll have you yelling in exasperation .
movie reviews - ' yelling to the sky ' - a queens chronicle that ' s a little too lifelike writer - director victoria mahoney marries her experiences as a biracial woman to the drama of an unstable family in y elling to the sk y . critic mark jenkins says the film , which stars zoe kravtiz as a troubled teen , struggles to build convincing relationships among its disadvantaged characters .
austin — an elliptical portrait of at - risk youth where little if anything is unambiguous , victoria mahoney ’s yelling to the sky drips with a strange but sometimes moving nostalgia for environs its characters clearly want to escape . its artful indirectness leaves enough gaps to present commercial difficulties , but the right kind of attention on the fest circuit could support an art - house run .
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sure , some people may find yelling to the sky bleak or hopeless . it’s heartbreaking to watch sweetness spiral out of control . sweetness clamors to escape , to break free . yet there’s nowhere to go . echoing real - life , the film ends with ambiguity and uncertainty . you don’t know how her life will turn out . sweetness’ story – her struggle to survive amidst the chaos swirling around her , desperate to cling to any semblance of community – is one worth telling . and it’s one we don’t see often enough .
yelling to the sky struck a visceral chord with me . i related to it in a way i often don’t with films . i’m not a biracial woman growing up impoverished , who turns to selling drugs as a means of survival . but i grew up with an absent father and a single mother struggling with mental illness , feeling trapped by my surroundings , desperate to break free .
all this leaves little for the actors to play—they are only directed to scowl , glare intensely at the ground , and occasionally cry . meanwhile , the camera lingers on a pot of gravy , or hands at the dinner table , or just the sky , in a misguided attempt to impart importance to the mundane . as sweetness casually dishes drugs to neighborhood kids , the schizo music shifts from indie guitar strumming to hardcore hip - hop . are we in “dawson’s creek” or “girlz n the hood” ?
the ambitions of indie coming - of - age drama “yelling to the sky” must be admired . set within a violent , lower - class suburb , it explores how a fractured home life nearly destroys teenager sweetness o’hara ( zoë kravitz ) . with a verbally and physically abusive dad ( jason clarke ) , a mom ( yolonda ross ) made comatose by depression , and peers ( including gabourey sidibe ) who routinely beat her to a pulp , sweetness decides the only way to survive is to deal drugs .
the movie includes several fistfights , a shooting and a drug bust , plus a shoplifting montage that crackles with teenage recklessness . like the hip - hop tunes that punctuate the alt - pop and faux - classical soundtrack , these moments provide lively counterpoint . they also foreshadow showdowns and comeuppances that never quite arrive . perhaps the clearest evidence that yelling to the sky is based on mahoney ' s own life is that the movie lets its most troubled characters off pretty easy .
yelling to the sky is a searing portrayal of one girl’s pain . of her frustration at being confined and trapped in a world not her choosing . sweetness doesn’t focus on her education or her future . she deals with the immediacy of her pain . she starts selling drugs as a way to make money . she numbs herself with drugs , alcohol and surrounding herself with a cadre of bullies and drug dealers . sweetness desperately yearns to escape . but where to ? where can she go ?
with zoe kravitz playing a character named sweetness and gabourey sidibe in a supporting role , street - chastened , queens - set coming - of - ager “yelling to the sky” will be hard - pressed to avoid comparisons to “precious . ” truth be told , writer - director - producer victoria mahoney’s semi - autobiographical debut feels like a cup - half - full response to that bleak inner - city fable , with a stunningly beautiful fair - skinned black teen [ … ]
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and given the roller - coaster of emotions the 90 - minute yelling to the sky is , from one extreme to another , the numbness i felt immediately after seeing the film made total sense ! but that’s obviously a personal response than a universal one . i tend to “shut down” after experiencing something so intense – or as i already deemed it , an assault on the senses . call it a defense mechanism . it’s like you’ve been emotionally “exposed” by a piece of art , as it’s able to force itself inside of you , and reach places that you’d normally keep shielded . and thus , the immediate reaction there is to create this wall that’s meant to keep the “intruder” ( the film ) out . hence , the numbness / shutting down .
while light - skinned biracial and black women possess privilege , they may also face a backlash and be deemed not “ black enough . ” while the jarring opening scene of yelling to the sky certainly alludes to this , it is never explored further . instead , the film resorts to racial stereotypes : “ dark ( er ) - skinned black people are mean and like to victimize light ( er ) - skinned black people , ” “girls / teenagers / women who are “authentically” black are bad” and “interracial relationships are dysfunctional . ”
in time , despite the violence and its threat , sweetness flounders into a sense of self in a movie that can feel as if it’s undergoing a similar painful metamorphosis . “yelling to the sky” can be frustrating , especially when sweetness takes up with some mean girls from school . as an outsider wanting in , her motivations feel true , but ms . mahoney’s ideas about her and this movie are fuzzier .
the vision of a pregnant woman beating a man until he’s bloody is hard to shake , and it’s the kind of startling , punctuating image that speaks to ms . mahoney’s strengths in this film . “yelling to the sky” is at once a coming - of - age story and a kitchen - sink drama , mostly though , it’s a mood piece and suggests the influence of filmmakers like terence davies and charles burnett . not much happens in story terms , but the film swirls with emotions that make it by turns grim and amusing , heavy and light , obvious and vague .
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but the moment snaps into focus when another woman , ola , raging and yelling , begins beating the man attacking sweetness , climbing on his body to punch him again and again as the crowd surges excitedly around them . when this fury is finally pulled off the attacker , her pregnant belly juts out , defiant as a fist .
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sweetness o’hara , the quiet teenager at the center of the american independent movie “yelling to the sky , ” lives in a small house that seems even smaller when her father is raging through it . as played by the young actress zoë kravitz , sweetness moves through life like a leaf in the wind . she drifts and scatters and at times gets caught underfoot , including by a gang of local bullies . every so often , though , she faces down a more frightening , confusing antagonist , her father , gordon ( jason clarke ) , a violent drunk whose menace overruns his erratic charm .
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this overall trajectory is familiar enough , delivering close brushes with prison and death — the two fates that surely await should sweetness continue on this path . but “yelling” unfolds rather listlessly , feeling like a much longer film than it is , due to curious editing choices that , among other things , make it virtually impossible to track how much time passes between the disconnected moments , and the fact that mahoney favors impressionistic fragments over scenes that power the story forward .
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when her mother abruptly leaves the scowling gordon , new burdens face sweetness . to survive , she turns to drug dealing before gradually coming ' round to college as an option . while a well - meaning school counselor ( tim blake nelson ) tries to help her make up for a missed sat opportunity , sweetness has to rely on steeliness , and her own sense of savvy and spunk , to fight her way out of her life .
characters transform ; those perceived to be weak , find strength ; and the strong prove to be just as vulnerable . lessons are learned often after extremes , and everyone isn’t exactly who they present themselves to be ( or who we , the audience might instinctively classify them as ) .
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kravitz approaches the change matter - of - factly , offering little outward hint of the character ' s motivations ; some viewers will be frustrated by an inability to identify with the character , while others will embrace the opaqueness as unsentimental realism .
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elsewhere , the film isn ' t averse to sentiment , portraying even deeply flawed characters in a nearly noble light , particularly the drug dealer ( tariq trotter ) who spreads his money around the neighborhood charitably .
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ms . mahoney opens the story with a spasm of abrupt , unsettling violence that sets an uneasy mood that endures for the run of the movie . sweetness and another teenager are bicycling on an otherwise peaceful street when a gang descends and grabs the girls , knocking them to the ground . it’s a confusing scene , with bodies thrashing inside the frame , partly because the who , what and where of the frenzy are as yet unknown .
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as sweetness , kravitz has to undergo a major transformation with practically no help from the script : when her pregnant big sister runs off , she undergoes an identity crisis and deliberately chooses to become a harder person — convincing a local drug dealer to help her start dealing and recruiting two identically dressed bad girls to form a tiny but tough gang .
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and it’s that same “unboxed” thinking that makes the film a challenge . like the mercurial nature of its characters , it’s just not - so easily classified . tonal shifts are sometimes jarring , and it may at first feel chaotic , but you’ll soon come to realize , as i did some time after the screening , it’s a controlled , contained chaos , if that makes sense . although another way to think about it , is taking into consideration that the unpredictability and uncertainty you feel in watching the film is exactly how you should feel , because victoria does a wonderful job creating the universe zoe kravitz’s sweetness o’hara lives in , both the physical and the psychological . hers is indeed a volatile , chaotic world , so , the fact that i was able to genuinely empathize is a credit to the film and all the talents involved in its making .
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when sweetness’s parents aren’t cuddling each other , her father drinks to excess and her mother fades into muteness , like a woman being erased . she later disappears , perhaps to an institution . as for sweetness , she unpersuasively tries to play a bad girl .
is the film perfect ? no it definitely falters at times . i wish we had learned more about each of the characters . it feels very much like a snapshot , a voyeuristic peek through the window into their messy and complicated lives . just when you’re lured in , the window abruptly closes . but the biggest flaw ? i wish it had more deeply explored the issue of race without resorting to stereotypes .
“stemming from my teenage obsession with chekov’s three sisters and a connection to the theme of “manufacturing illusions in order to sustain day to day life . ” i related on a gut level to the notion of joy and opportunity , existing elsewhere while in the same breadth knowing it was a lie . the illusion of “one day it’ll be different” is what kept me alive and smashing that illusion might’ve been my death . putting this film out is important because ( yet another generation of ) young people are facing the exact same isolation , confusion , neglect , inquiry , desire , and heartache . all these years later , there’s little to no progress or solution . adults have become freakishly focused on ‘self’ , so much so , that we’re failing our responsibilities to participate and aid in the development and advancement of young people’s spiritual and intellectual growth . ”
zoë kravitz was no stranger to the glamorous world of hollywood as a child . she was born in los angeles to a famous couple : her father is musician lenny kravitz , and her mother is actress lisa bonet . . . .
a painful history of colorism and skin shade hierarchy — dark vs . light skin — exists amongst black women . when the media portrays black women , we often see women with lighter skin , straighter hair and more caucasian features . both l’oreal and elle photoshopped black to make their skin appear much lighter . the media often whitewashes black women , continually perpetuating the unachievable attainment of the white ideal of beauty . “ the myth of black beauty ” and the preference for lighter black skin can be traced back to slavery .
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sparrow songs is scheduled to conclude october 2010 . as for what’s next , jablonski will only say , “we’re going to make a feature documentary together as sparrow songs . we’re looking for a producer , and we hope to be shooting this fall . ” — s . m .
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my childhood existed of treacherous terrain to navigate . my mother was preoccupied by her own problems . i never knew what i was walking into when i went home . so i focused on the future . i clung to the hope that one day things would be different . that was the sole reason i survived . it’s the one thing that kept me going . while my mind was fixated on the future , my actions were grounded in the present . like sweetness , i skipped classes and almost didn’t graduate high school for i wanted to numb my pain . it’s this delicate dance of present angst and future hopes that mahoney captures so well .
their goal was to make as many films as they could over the course of a semester , resulting in 14 shorts . ella and the astronaut played festivals all over the world , and charlie and the rabbit premiered at sundance 2010 . the collaboration is just that : after conversations about an idea , they talk each scene out on location , switching up who is filming and who is directing based on a feeling of the moment . both share editing duties .
it’s a rare occurrence that a film is able to create a world that’s so vivid and raw that i’m sucked in and totally immersed in it , experiencing every moment as if i really am right there with the characters – so immersed that when the film ended , it was only then that i realized how involved i was , which lead to the disorientation i felt .
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while i was disappointed the film didn’t explore mother - daughter relationships , it does show the bonds of sisterhood . the relationship between sweetness and ola is my favorite part of the film . we see the girls joke , play , challenge and comfort one another . both rely on one other for support . ola leaves home to live with her boyfriend , leaving sweetness to fend for herself alone . but she’s not the only one trapped . months later , ola must return home with her baby , now a single mother . her dreams of escape nothing but nebulous memories .
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and it’s this kind of “unboxed” approach to cinema that i find appealing . fuck safety . take some risks . i’d more readily applaud a film that challenges the expected order of things and fails ( not that this one does , by the way , but just to make a point ) , than one that simply repeats formula mechanically . the phrasing i’ve heard used is “assembly line cinema . ”
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sara colangelo’s little accidents is one of the more arresting shorts on the festival circuit at the moment , both immediate and restrained in its tale of a woman working in a massachusetts soda drink factory who fears that she’s become pregnant . she recruits her mentally disabled ex - boyfriend to shoplift a pregnancy test for her and bonds again with him as she struggles with what to do . “i was interested in the juxtaposition of two people , one of whom is recently disabled and trying to reintegrate himself into society and who is the stable one , and the other a woman who may be pregnant and who is spinning out of control , ” colangelo says . “and i was interested in the factory setting , which is almost a metaphor for motherhood . through the course of the short , you slowly realize that these people have a past , and that they dated once . i’m always interested in withholding information from the audience . it becomes more interesting for them that way ; it gets their wheels turning . ”
the result is inevitably didactic , but also poetic in its choice of seemingly nonessential details , as in a scene that finds sweetness helping her father stitch up a bleeding head wound . these moments , like the colorful , cluttered house sweetness inhabits , feel lived - in enough to be lifted directly from mahoney’s own experience and promise to linger in our memories long after the occasional awkwardness involved in conveying them onscreen is forgotten .
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smith , who appeared as “rent’s” outgoing mimi on broadway , embodies what dignity looks like in this dead - end environment , but sweetness has bigger aspirations , turning to drug dealing and petty crime to modestly improve her quality of life . at school , counselor coleman ( tim blake nelson ) spots the signs of trouble and tries to steer sweetness straight , but such lessons only can be learned firsthand — and so kravitz takes her character through a remarkable transformation from delicate introvert to self - possessed street thug .
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needless to say , “monetization” is indirect . says jablonski , “at least two times a week i get an e - mail from a random stranger saying , ‘thank you for making these films . they give me a lot . ’ but the big - picture benefit is that michael and i have developed a great friendship , and that friendship is what’s allowed the project to continue . ”
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after working off - off broadway , mahoney went to l . a . , did a number of pilots , a few european films , and a season of seinfeld ( she played gladys mayo , owner of the clothing store putumayo ) . but then there were all those “ridiculous films i did to sustain myself . and that’s when i began to feel [ artistically ] ungratified . so , i slipped into writing . i went to cubby — that’s what we called hubert selby , jr . , who taught the masters program at usc . he gave me a skill set for writing instead of my [ previous ] fantasy of being a writer . ”
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continuing , colangelo says , “we have so much material . one of the film’s arcs deals with john , the older brother . he’s had musical failures , going from band to band and not having them work out . suddenly he puts his younger brother in a band and it starts getting all of this attention . but the film is also about mortality . bill has had two heart surgeries , and john , who wasn’t that close to him early on , worries he doesn’t have much time left with him . ”
but the point here is that central characters definitely aren’t 2 - dimensional “coming of age” movie cut - outs . they are alive , fully realized human beings , all on personal journeys , trying to make sense of the world around them , and really just find some stability amidst the chaos – the non - fleeting kind ; a need that i think is universal . the saying goes that we’re all alike , and when life throws daggers our way , we become interested in one thing and one thing only – our own survival , by any means necessary .
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in a scene that takes place inside the office of a teacher at the high school zoe’s sweetness o’hara attends , a poster hanging on what may have been a wall ( although that’s irrelevant ) read something like , “ character is who you are… ” and in smaller letters , “ when nobody is watching . ” those may not have been the exact words , but close enough . the sentiment is the same and understood .
the nyu film grad counts spike lee , the walking film - directing brand and dean of black cinema himself , as a mentor , influence and friend , but he also name checks paul greengrass , clint eastwood and 2003 25 new face seith mann as influences . “i respect those who have a voice , who speak up , who have something to say , ” he said . his upcoming film , produced by night catches us producer ron simons , is about “a puerto rican family in the bronx whose father returns home from prison after three years to discover that his teenage son is gay / transgender , and the drama that ensues . ” look for it on the festival circuit next year . — brandon harris
character motivations lack scene - to - scene sense . why does sweetness’ sister ( antonique smith ) strangle sweetness for wrecking her car in one scene , then warmly laughs with her while washing dishes the next ? when sweetness chats with her guidance counselor about college , did they forget last week’s coke binge ? what’s the point of sweetness’ father’s constant entrances and exits ? and what about the murdered dude ? the film is less about a dysfunctional family and more a study of dysfunctional storytelling .
sweetness’ unpredictable father gordon ( jason clarke ) vacillates between affectionate charisma and volatile violence and rage . he verbally and physically abuses every woman in the household . he tries to make amends for his deplorable parenting later in the film . but since he’s caused so much trauma , it might be too late for forgiveness .
because of the film’s insistent funereal pace , forgive me for chuckling when sassy bully gabourey sidibe gets dragged by her hair across the school hallway by tiny , vengeful zoë kravitz .
seeped in realism , the naturalistic performances from the cast , including star zoe kravitz , are dynamic – vigorous and purposeful ; active and changing . nary a sequence is wasted .
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the knowledge that these are not just disparate short films but rather installments in a time - based project gives sparrow songs a quiet gravity . the project began when jablonski , who graduated from ucla film school in 2009 , heard about a friend , musician john wood , who was releasing an album a month . “i thought that was such a cool discipline , ” he says . jablonski’s narrative short blue boy had been playing festivals , including tribeca , and he was doing the rounds of meetings . “i realized that [ industry projects ] take a long time , ” he says . “i wanted to do something where i wouldn’t have to ask permission to either make it or show it . ”
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as her family falls apart , seventeen year old sweetness o ' hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain .
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17 - year - old sweetness o’hara ( zoe kravitz ) has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road . being the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community , she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father , and a mother suffering from a mental illness , the exact nature of which sweetness is unsure . her protective older sister , ola , is pregnant , with no support from the child’s father . yet , with all this chaos enveloping her , sweetness takes her life into her own hands in a neighborhood where to become an adult , you first must survive as a teenager .
all benny wants to do is be more confident , stop thinking so much and fall in love . when he has a chance encounter with jordan , a woman obsessed with the notion of fate and a magical kind . . . see full summary »
veronica love seems to have it all . . . she ' s smart , sassy and sexy and has a career as one of the most successful real estate entrepreneurs in california . affectionately known as love by her . . . see full summary »
since graduating , they have made two seasons of their web series american nobodies , short films profiling people in small towns . this may result from growing up in small towns — machoian in king city , calif . ( “6 , 000 when i was there” ) , and ojeda - beck in davis , calif . , where his parents relocated to from peru . for ojeda - beck , “growing up in a small town requires you to look , to see . ”
summary : sweetness ( zoë kravitz ) is a good girl–gone–bad who is suffering with teen angst that ranges from racial identity issues t0 bullying to drugs and more .
set in queens but with no specific geographical references ( and few rooting it to any definite time period ) , the movie focuses on a mixed - race home in which two girls , sweetness ( zoe kravitz ) and ola ( antonique smith ) , are raised by a white father — alcoholic and prone to abuse , but caring when sober — and a black mother afflicted with mental - health issues we never understand .
“this project has been like what musicians call ‘woodshedding , ’” says alex jablonski about his collaborative venture with michael totten , sparrow songs . “we are finding our voice , trying out different styles , and learning so much . ” adds totten , “in the past i’ve let this idea of ‘i don’t have the right money or equipment or subject matter’ prevent me from moving forward . sparrow songs has taught me to get rid of the idea of perfection because it doesn’t exist . ”
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in closing , as i already said , i think this is a film that demands a second viewing for a number of reasons . it ends in almost a similar fashion as it begins , still with an uncertainty of what will come of these characters , despite the cathartic moment that was the very last scene . in essence , i felt like i “interrupted” the lives of these people , spent about 90 minutes with them , although the film takes place over several months , immersed in this chaotic world they exist in , and then almost abruptly left in the same manner in which i entered it . they lived before i met them , and they will continue to live after i left them , however unstable that living might be .
a native of australia , jason clarke has come a long way from his sheep sheering days as a child , graduating from the university of melbourne , victorian college of the arts in 1994 . after graduation , . . .
all the actors give stellar performances in this emotionally raw and gritty film . zoe kravitz in particular captivates with a nuanced , powerful performance as the smart , struggling sweetness o’hara , trying to survive in a whirlwind of turmoil . sweetness and her older sister live in a troubled home with unstable , unreliable parents : their white father , an alcoholic and their african - american mother who suffers from mental illness .
sweetness overhauls her look , trading girly clothes for makeup and gaudy gold jewelry . ( at 22 , kravitz already looks a bit too mature for the role , but is right in so many other ways , it’s best not to quibble . ) her new identity is more independent and assertive , as sweetness breaks away from her dysfunctional family to form a clique of her own , including drug dealer roland ( tariq trotter , who confidently embodies the unlikeliest of role models ) and two of latonya’s former groupies ( shareeka epps and sonequa martin , playing friends so tight they clone one another’s wardrobes ) .
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clarke , whose hirsute , semi - hulking appearance hides an appealingly snide villainy , lets just enough charm and vulnerability show within gordon ' s jerkiness . gadibe seems to be coasting , now that we ' ve seen how funny and sly she can be in
tower heist
and
seven psychopaths .
yet she and the rest of the cast find an honest , just - gritty - enough groove that never panders or preaches .
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in a sense , this degree of personal investment compensates for something lacking in kravitz’s otherwise star - making performance . there’s no denying the actress’ beauty , but apart from that , she never really demonstrates what sets sweetness apart from other girls trapped in similar straits , something narration might have solved . mahoney , on the other hand , was clearly driven by a genuine creative gift , and escaped such restraints to unleash this affecting cri du coeur .
mahoney said she wanted to evoke feelings of claustrophobia when sweetness spent time at home . and she succeeds beautifully . you feel just as trapped as sweetness , chained by loneliness , fear and desperation . when she’s out in the streets , it feels frenetic with drunken stupors , drive - by shootings and drug deals gone wrong .
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colangelo is midway through another project , a documentary . “i heard a story on npr one morning about this band , bill , ” colangelo says . “the older brother is the manager , and he put his younger brother , bill , who has down syndrome , in as lead singer . my younger brother has down syndrome , so their process was fascinating to me . i gave them a call and they let me spend a lot of the summer of ’08 with them , sitting in on recording sessions , following them around when they perform . i think disability is talked about a lot when people are younger and going through special needs schools , but when they’re older it feels like they’re forgotten about . they fall off the grid . ”
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i’ve intentionally not revealed any of the film’s plot because i actually think it’s somewhat irrelevant in this case ; if you haven’t figured it out by now , based on all i’ve already said , it’s not a film that’s interested in telling the expected linear narrative . there is a story there , don’t get me wrong – one that i could probably summarize in one sentence ; but the film lives on another level .
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four mothers is the 1941 drama film and sequel to four daughters ( 1938 ) and four wives ( 1939 ) .

the film stars claude rains , jeffrey lynn , may robson and featuring the lane sisters : priscilla lane , rosemary lane and lola lane .

it was directed by william keighley and is based on the story " sister act " by fannie hurst .

the film was released by warner bros. on january 4 , 1941 .

the lane sisters appeared in all three films , they also appeared together in the 1939 film daughters courageous .

four mothers

the three movies , four daughters , four mothers , four wives are bittersweet stories of four girls / women , their lovable father , and expanding families . . . .
four mothers by shifra horn . st . martin & apos ; s , $ 23 . 95 .
al hayat - the four mothers movement plunges into the battle for peace via . . . the internet
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the story of four working mothers who became record - breakers when they rowed across the atlantic could now be told in a movie .
today the four mothers met with prime minister ehud barak , who last week completed the unilateral withdrawal from lebanon that they had pushed for .
the founders , like those of four mothers , are all residents of kibbutzim and moshavim in the north . in the four mothers this caused a split and the departure of most of the activists from the center of the country .
the movement ends in haifa ,
they used to quip .
today , in imitation of a military custom , ms . ben dor pinned a medal on mr . barak ' s chest - - with force . it was a four mothers button .
four mothers ( 1941 ) follows four daughters ( 1938 ) & four wives ( 1939 ) , and i ' m glad they dropped this series before they got to four widows with claude rains having no choice than to go medieval on the husbands going insane for playing this ultimate cool tv - dad . the film is alright , but takes a lot of weird emotional turns for no apparent reasons other than it being last ditch ideas to squeeze something out of the lane sisters .
the name four mothers movement was coined on march 4 , 1997 . five years to the day , another new movement that also calls for withdrawal - this time from the territories - has been established .
reasonable : i did enjoy it - but not really my sort of book . the story of four mothers and a family curse . mystical and lyrical in places and beautifully written . themes echoing down the generations .
four mothers sprang spontaneously from the disaster in which two idf helicopters on their way to lebanon crashed , killing 73 soldiers . the seventh day is the product of another movement , mabat l ' ofek ( the vista ) , set up by antebi and other four mother activists with the aim of having a dialogue with the settlers .
the comparison with four mothers is inevitable , even though only some of the seven signatories to the declaration of intention of the new movement were members of the other protest group . and unlike the motivation of many of the activists in four mothers - fear that their sons would die without reason in lebanon - this time the vision is broader .
then it was an outburst of anguish . today it is more the result of a process ,
antebi says .
' ' from the beginning it was so shocking to the israeli public that it was mothers who were demanding answers from the government , ' ' said linda ben zvi , a leading member but not one of the original four . ' ' mothers were supposed to make the schnitzel and hand - wash the uniforms and play the passive role inbred in israeli society . ' '
in the same way as four mothers broke the taboo of withdrawal from lebanon and made it a political issue , so the seventh day hopes to create a public debate and to give legitimation to expression for a desire to withdraw from the territories .
written with a droll sense of humor ms . horn captures the essence of four generations of mother - daughter relationships in an ever - changing world . . . mothers clinging to long - standing traditions , daughters grasping at the unknown future . beautiful !
on talk shows , the mothers were placed opposite generals who patted them on the shoulders and rolled their eyes when the women spoke .
on march 4 , 1997 , a name was coined for a protest group whose activities contributed to the historic decision to pull out of lebanon - the four mothers movement . zohara antebi , one of the four , sees symbolic significance in the fact that five years to the day , another new movement that also calls for withdrawal - this time from the territories - has been established .
but it was too late . the israeli news media loved the mothers , and the public appreciated the way they memorialized every soldier who died .
in the three days since news of the movement got out , support is spreading in leaps and bounds .
it ' s great ,
says antebi while the telephone does not stop ringing in the background .
four mothers was small change compared to this .
the third - - and probably least effective - - installment in the warner brothers series that traced the loves of four sisters ( the first two were four daughters and four wives ) . married life and financial difficulties make up the crux of this melodrama , which sees three of the sisters now happy homemakers with babies and hubbies to care for . trouble looms when . . . read more
the mothers , who will meet on saturday to vote on whether to put themselves out of business as an organization , do not need it anymore .
that pushed ms . ben dor , an opponent of what she saw as israel ' s senseless involvement in lebanon , over the edge . summoning three friends to her kitchen in a northern kibbutz , she hatched a group eventually called the four mothers - - leave lebanon in peace .
four daughters . four wives . four mothers . the popular film series comes to an end with this laughter - touched melodrama that welcomes fans to one last visit with the lemp family . the four lemp sisters , played by the lane sisters ( priscilla , rosemary and lola ) plus gale page , have faced triumph and tragedy together . now the years of struggle seem to be over - until a real estate investment brings financial disaster to them and their town . the townsfolk blame the girls ' father ( claude rains ) , the family home may have to be sold . . . and the lemps prove once again that the greatest strength comes from family . a life - and - death medical mystery ( one of the girls married a crusading doctor ) adds suspense to the sentiment .
on friday , they confirmed a book telling their story - four mums in a boat - will be published by a division of harpercollins uk next year .
needless to say , the call for a withdrawal from the territories is not new and different movements have tried to advocate it for years . but because of four mothers ' reputation as a grassroots movement - largely of women - that succeeded in influencing military and political policy , the new movement is arousing a great deal of excitement .
many israelis celebrated the four mothers this week . the jerusalem post today called them ' ' one of the most successful grass - roots movements in israeli history . ' ' the women took a classic israeli stereotype - - the silent , suffering soldier ' s mother - - stood it on its head and dared to challenge the military .
correction : june 7 , 2000 , wednesday an article on saturday about the four mothers , a group formed to promote israeli withdrawal from southern lebanon , referred incorrectly at one point to the mother of or ben dor , who earned a medal in combat there . she is rachel ben dor ; linda ben zvi is another member of the organization .
not brilliant writing . . . but ok . about four generations of women in jerusalem - novel , not bio / auto / memoir . . . it is ok . interesting .
the four friends - known as the yorkshire rows - became the oldest women to row across an ocean when they crossed the finish line of the talisker whisky atlantic challenge in antigua .
american singers and actresses the lane sisters , with actress gail page , posing with baby carriages containing baby dolls , in a promotional portrait for ' four mothers ' , directed by william keighley , 1941 . left to right : priscilla lane ( 1915 - 1995 ) , rosemary lane ( 1914 - 1974 ) , gail page ( 1913 - 1983 ) and lola lane ( 1906 - 1981 ) .
the topic was not withdrawal then , but an attempt to work out together what shape the country ' s future should take . the dialogue led to a split in four mothers and some of those who were opposed to the dialogue are currently organizing into a group called the fifth mother , with the aim of withdrawing from the territories . unlike the seventh day , its members are all women and its tone is motherly .
a family saga , focusing on the stories of four successive generations of mothers who are cursed with what can only be described as serious husband problems . by any definition , these are interesting women , and most of them are complete nut jobs . there is a heavy overlay of folklore throughout much of the book , and this gives it something of an exotic quality . the writing is lovely , and this alone makes the book better than the typical family saga .
nan masters , a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters , plans to marry sam sloane , businessman . out of the blue her 1st husband jim returns after deserting the family 20 . . . see full summary »
three of the four musically inclined daughters of adam lemp , the dean of the briarwood music foundation , are settling into their lives as wives , but not all is well . thea lemp has long . . . see full summary »
adam lemp and his four daughters ( ann , thea , kay , and emma ) find themselves in financial and emotional crises . thea ' s husband ben has promoted a florida housing development to everyone in . . . see full summary »
the matrilineal descent of a middle eastern family fueled by magical realism reminded me of dora levy mossanen ' s harem . both of these authors were born in tel aviv . four mothers was an award - winning work published in 1996 in hebrew that i read in english translation . harem was published in 2002 in english , and i would be really surprised if the influence didn ' t come from shifra horn . i never quite know what to do with these long family sagas that don ' t have an obvious endpoint or goal , but i am a
adam lemp , the dean of the briarwood music foundation , has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - thea , emma , kay and ann - who live with him and his sister , the . . . see full summary »
local and foreign tv crews , well known and anonymous peace activists , are all contacting the group to hear more . not all the responses are favorable . on one web site where the new movement was mentioned , surfers responded by calling them
four terrorists
and there have been threatening telephone calls . they are used to the threats from the lebanon days .
the matrilineal descent of a middle eastern family fueled by magical realism reminded me of dora levy mossanen ' s harem . both of these authors were born in tel aviv . four mothers was an award - winning work published in 1996 in hebrew that i read in english translation . harem was published in 2002 in english , and i would be really surprised if the influence didn ' t come from shifra horn . i never quite know what to do with these long family sagas that don ' t have an obvious endpoint or goal , but i am attracted to the magical elements . i think i will remember the severely autistic son ( who lives at home , never having been diagnosed with anything , never being educated ) and the rose distillery ' s effect on the horses of jerusalem .
this doesn’t really merit a summary , but here it is – five generations of women suffer a curse which results in their being abandoned by their husbands around the time they deliver their first child . from here , you can probably write the book yourself – typical chick lit saga of mothers and daughters , each with her own story . apparently , israel is not immune to the tired marketing ploy of , “middle aged women , i just know you’ll love to read me in your book clubs and will uncritically accept all
a rich and sweeping family saga set in israel over a century , about five remarkable jewish mothers . amal , after giving birth to a son , and thereby breaking the curse of the women of her family explores the lives of her mother , the wayward geula , her grandmother pnina mazal who can read minds , her great grandmother , the legendary beauty , sara , and her great great grandmother , mazal , who was forced to marry young and was abandoned by her husband after giving birth , thus setting the trend of single
a friend of mine raved about this so i got a copy for myself . what a page - turner . i kept thinking
something ' s gotta happen soon
and pressed on , but no . nothing happened . four generations in a single book . daughter hates mother , admires grandmother , messes up life , has a baby . or something like that , to be fair i ' ve forgotten already . and it didn ' t even help me get into my friend ' s pants .
a wonderful family saga . this is yet another book which i have read in just a few hours , but it wasn ' t due to simple content or easy language . it was just so magical and facinating . exactly the kind of books i like . it is not a fantasy book , but it has an element of fantasy which goes through it in a way which reminds me of ' one hundred years of solitude ' . this book was aritten by an israeli author , and although it tells the story of an israeli family , and of jerusalem throughout four generations ,
a wonderful family saga . this is yet another book which i have read in just a few hours , but it wasn ' t due to simple content or easy language . it was just so magical and facinating . exactly the kind of books i like . it is not a fantasy book , but it has an element of fantasy which goes through it in a way which reminds me of ' one hundred years of solitude ' . this book was aritten by an israeli author , and although it tells the story of an israeli family , and of jerusalem throughout four generations , it has the feel of an english book which has been translated into hebrew . 20 . 3 . 07
adam lemp and his four daughters ( ann , thea , kay , and emma ) find themselves in financial and emotional crises . thea ' s husband ben has promoted a florida housing development to everyone in town , and when a hurricane wipes out the investments of all their friends , the lemps decide to pay back the losses , even if it costs them their own home . kay ' s husband clint is so devoted to his medical research that he risks losing kay . and ann ' s husband felix , encountering kay during an out - of - town trip , finds his loneliness putting his marriage at risk . meanwhile , as a result of the antipathy of the townspeople due to the investment disaster , adam loses his beloved position with the musical society .
pet peeve : miss - using and over - using the phrase ,
had very little to do .
someone picked that up from a professional critic and it keeps getting passed around . it ' s not a catchall phrase . does that really apply here ? this is the same group carrying the movie as before . it ' s a big family , and the immediate members are the focal points . there are four daughters , after all . the husbands are naturally lesser support figures . there is a problem with this one in particular , but let ' s s try to be accurate about it . actually , most take issue with this particular script . it ' s not the distribution of labor ; it ' s what the writers did this time . perhaps there was criticism that the family was too squeaky clean or something along that line . they just seemed to disassemble everyone , only to put them back together again - quite artificially in both cases . whatever it was , it was not effective . if you like hanging out with the gang in general , you might enjoy this one for that reason . but , if you want to remember them pretty much as they were , best to skip this one .
a rich and sweeping family saga set in israel over a century , about five remarkable jewish mothers . amal , after giving birth to a son , and thereby breaking the curse of the women of her family explores the lives of her mother , the wayward geula , her grandmother pnina mazal who can read minds , her great grandmother , the legendary beauty , sara , and her great great grandmother , mazal , who was forced to marry young and was abandoned by her husband after giving birth , thus setting the trend of single motherhood which each of the women in the family would be burdened with . full of sites and signs and undercurrents , and many other characters and persons that burst from the pages . it is an epic rich in humanity , erotic , ironic , and full of twists and turns , that will stay in your mind long after you have read it . it traces the many generations of jews that have lived in jerusalem , in a sensitive and thoughtful way . sadly some people in the world cannot recognize humanity . when shifra horn appeared on australian radio to discuss this totally non - political book , the talk show host aggressively interrogated her on the supposed sins of israel ' s government , ignoring the book she had come to talk about . some people in the world refuse to recognize the humanity of israel ' s jews , dehumanizing them in such a way that resembles europe before the holocaust
n this five - generational tale , the first novel from the israeli writer shifra horn , the family tree is a gnarled and hearty mulberry that grows in the yard of sara , the narrator & apos ; s great - grandmother . sara , whose long shining hair was like a & apos ; & apos ; radiant halo , & apos ; & apos ; is at the center of this narrative , translated deftly from the hebrew by dalya bilu , in which folklore , mystery and fantasy mingle with 100 years of history in the closely knit neighborhoods of jerusalem . this is not the kind of magic realism in which characters fly , yet the lives of horn & apos ; s female characters are punctuated with unlikely coincidences and otherworldly powers . sara is celebrated throughout the city for her homemade rose water , which can alleviate pain , end infertility , mend the soul and more ; women line up outside her home for her guidance as a healer and seer . sara & apos ; s daughter , pnina - mazal , is able to understand almost every language , including the sounds made by her mentally impaired brother . all the mothers are independent and colorful and , in what seems to be a family curse , each is deserted by her husband soon after marriage . there & apos ; s a quiet joy among the women when amal , the youngest , gives birth to a son ; they recognize that this bleak legacy may be broken . as though she had been living only for that moment , sara , whose age is & apos ; & apos ; a day and a night , & apos ; & apos ; dies . soon after , the mulberry tree dies too . another is planted and flourishes at sara & apos ; s grave , crowded with visitors , ever fragrant with the smell of roses .
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when clint and ann first enter his laboratory , a moving shadow of the boom microphone can be seen on the lab equipment in the foreground .
piano sonata no . 8 in c minor , op . 13 ( pathétique )
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shifra horn ' s beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in jerusalem . the story begins with the birth of the family ' s first boy to amal , the last generation . her mother , grandmother and great - grandmother are overjoyed , because the birth of a healthy boy means that the curse against the wom
shifra horn ' s beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in jerusalem . the story begins with the birth of the family ' s first boy to amal , the last generation . her mother , grandmother and great - grandmother are overjoyed , because the birth of a healthy boy means that the curse against the women of the family has been broken . they tell amal the story of those
foremothers
: mazal , the orphan , whose ill - fated marriage initiates the curse ; her daughter sara , whose golden hair is a symbol for her power to heal ; sara ' s daughter pnina - mazal , the unwanted child whose talent for knowing others ' thoughts brings both joy and sorrow ; and her daughter geula , amal ' s mother , whose sharp intellect is her gift and her burden .
i liked the generational saga aspect . i also enjoyed the individual stories regarding each of the women , which wove a tapestry of love , loss , turmoil and even redemption .
loved this book , such an enjoyable read . loved how the author would almost transport you to isarel and the time . how deep love can grow in some and shallow in others .
i wasn ' t eager to read this book for my book club . the cover art alone didn ' t intrigued me ; i found it unlikable . the beginning of the book was slow for me even with my familiarity with some of the traditions and culture it referenced . some reviewers have mentioned in accuracies regarding these elements but i have no such knowledge . still the pace of the story wasn ' t encouraging . i relegated the book to my bathroom read . this meant i read only a few pages every day . suddenly to my surprise , i fou
i wasn ' t eager to read this book for my book club . the cover art alone didn ' t intrigued me ; i found it unlikable . the beginning of the book was slow for me even with my familiarity with some of the traditions and culture it referenced . some reviewers have mentioned in accuracies regarding these elements but i have no such knowledge . still the pace of the story wasn ' t encouraging . i relegated the book to my bathroom read . this meant i read only a few pages every day . suddenly to my surprise , i found i had read over one half of the book . i also realized that i had reached a point where i wanted to finish the book . partly i was impatient to do so to get the book over with , and partly because i now truly wanted to and hear the end of the author story . i don ' t believe that i will be recommending the book to family and friends . but i would not declare the book a bad one .
this book was certainly out of my comfort zone . i am more of a suspense / action reader . i was surprised by how fast this book had me hooked . this book spans 5 generations and goes into detail telling the story of each while giving details of the curse that follows the women of the family . it tells of fame , fortune , poverty , basically any and everything that could happen to a family though out the years . i enjoyed being able to follow the history of the family . the book is rather long but that is
this book was certainly out of my comfort zone . i am more of a suspense / action reader . i was surprised by how fast this book had me hooked . this book spans 5 generations and goes into detail telling the story of each while giving details of the curse that follows the women of the family . it tells of fame , fortune , poverty , basically any and everything that could happen to a family though out the years . i enjoyed being able to follow the history of the family . the book is rather long but that is necessary to give you the information needed to really keep your interest and give you enough background on all of the characters . this book is certainly worth the time spent reading it ! i received this book in exchange for an honest review .
a story of 5 generations of women from one family , spanning 100 years . the stories are told by the youngest female in the family . each story is intertwined - the strongest story is about sara ( great grandmother ) from her pitiful mother to the the great granddaughter who sara believes has broken the curse over their family . it is a riveting story full of history re : jerusalem , the people and customs .
while each individual story of each woman is well - done , the threads between these strong characters are thinly stretched , as if each generation lived almost in isolation from the others . still , powerful characters and it is always interesting to read a story that is grounded in a place i am interested in but do not know well .
although i really liked another one of this author ' s books ( ode to joy ) , this one didn ' t do anything for me . it ' s the story of five generations of women in a family in jerusalem . women in this family somehow have been
cursed
with losing their husbands , one way or another , when they have daughters . for me the story became tedious .
this has been sitting in my bookcase for ages . ages and years . and it was wonderful , chock full of my favorite things : generational stories , magical realism , judaism , and a fairy tale feel . the only thing it needed was an epistolary chapter , and i would ' ve declared it perfect . ; )
eh . it ' s ok . bought in irael because it is a novel about 4 generations of israeli women . . . eh . it ' s ok .
i have to agree with another reviewer , it was good but there was no real point . it also ended with no real closure on the story .
the liked the book for its portrait of strong women , reminded me of the movie practical magic .
amazing book that empowers women . glad i came across this author to review for my blog . the book was amazing . i couldn ' t put it down .
set in jerusalem , this book deals with the lives of 5 generations of women . beautifully written , this author is the jewish equivalent of isabel allende .
something may have gone astray with translation from hebrew ; found a few words missing and unusual uses but the story captivates , like a fairytale .
magical realism is always among my favourites . a beautiful story which made me swept away .
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shifra horn was born in tel aviv . she lives in the old malcha neighbourhood of jerusalem and in auckland new zealand . after majoring in bible studies and archeology - ba ( hons ) - at the hebrew university of jerusalem , she earned an ma in bible studies . horn also studied mass communications and completed a teaching degree . horn worked as an educational officer for the world union of jewish students ,
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it is called the seventh day - the day that will follow and complete the six day war , 35 years after it began .
they say that the
lebanonization
of the territories dictates a
lebanonization
in response - namely , a withdrawal more or less to the 1967 borders . but , with that , the comparison ends .
in the north and those who had sons serving in lebanon .
now we are talking about something that touches the very heart and shape of our society ,
he says .
a leadership that is demanding that the public stand firm must present it with an aim and explain why . we are suggesting an aim and a kind of hope .
the group ' s aim is a democratic jewish state that does not occupy another people and does not practice apartheid . the hope is that the terror will one day end , even though reshef does not delude anyone that it will be immediately or as the result of a withdrawal . but a withdrawal from the territories will make it possible to invest in israel ' s social fabric - in development towns , education , in social and economic affairs .
members of the movement have come out openly against the group of reserve officers who refuse to serve in the territories and against left - wing activists who see the only key in dialogue with the other side . antebi says that neither the lebanese nor the palestinians , but only the israelis themselves , can decide on the nature of israeli society .
the rifts were hidden from the public eye so as not to jeopardize the efforts to bring about a withdrawal . the movement ' s major strength was its ability to gain the attention of the media , including grabbing many headlines that were not always accurate .
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in 1997 , two israeli army helicopters collided on the way to lebanon , killing 73 soldiers as they crashed in the front yard of the school that rachel ben dor ' s children attended . at the time , ms . ben dor ' s oldest son was a soldier in lebanon , and several of his former classmates , recent graduates like him , died .
for years the military and political establishment dismissed them as overly emotional and ignorant of security concerns . but later , after they spawned a significant antiwar movement , they were derided on a baser level . an army commander crudely insulted them using a slur for women earlier this year , but in a signal of how the tide had turned , he was pressed to apologize .
the women once called traitors were embraced by the nation ' s most decorated former general , and the whole issue came full circle , dizzyingly for them .
' ' there we were inside the defense ministry that we used to picket , kissing and hugging with the prime minister and the army chief , ' ' said ms . ben dor , 42 . ' ' and all the generals were standing there , thinking i don ' t know what . it was so amazing . ' '
during the early 1980 ' s , large antiwar rallies challenged israel ' s invasion of lebanon . but then the country fell largely silent for more than a decade . israel ' s occupation of a what it called a ' ' security zone ' ' in southern lebanon , with an annual death toll of 25 to 35 israeli soldiers , became a reality that seemed immutable .
' ' it was like a sign from the skies , telling us the whole thing had to be stopped , ' ' said ms . ben dor , a teacher and mother of three sons . ' ' for many , many nights afterward , people who had sons in the army didn ' t sleep . they were waiting for the devil to come knocking at their door .
' ' in israel we are all the time thinking that the army knows what it is doing , and sometimes we have to think twice . someone should say this is crazy , i decided . it was crazy to educate our children to be decent and then at 18 send them places to kill the other people . we should send our children to die because our leaders can ' t solve our problems by talking ?
' ' and on a more specific level , the army ' s plan wasn ' t working . if they were in lebanon to protect northern israel , why were the katyusha rockets falling on us ? ' '
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the women began with small street protests at traffic junctions . they wrote letters to lawmakers . they organized debates at northern kibbutzim .
after the first story about them appeared on national television , they received calls from all over the country . working women all , they found themselves at the vanguard of a movement , without any organization , time or money . and they knew that what they were doing would take all that plus endurance .
it also took its toll on their families . one mother quit when her soldier son demanded it . ms . ben zvi had a hard time figuring out how to react when her son , or , won a medal for his fighting in lebanon . he asked her whether she was proud . and with difficulty she told him she was , because ' ' his reality was the war ' ' and she had raised him to excel at whatever he did .
' ' it was a tremendous miscalculation , ' ' said ms . ben zvi , a professor . eventually the military understood that the women were shaping national opinion and began to attack their movement as bad for the morale of the soldiers and the country .
understanding the shift in public sentiment , the three leading candidates for prime minister in the last election promised to bring the boys home from lebanon . mr . barak , who took office last july , made it a pledge with a date : by july 7 , 2000 , he said .
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sarah would have told god , ' forget it ' .
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the women , who all have children at the same school and became friends after taking up rowing at a club in york , formed the plan to take part in the race around three years ago at a boat club dinner .
during their 67 days at sea , the team encountered a hurricane , power failures , attacks from flying fish , seasickness and injuries .
they also revealed they had to row naked after running out of clean clothes and said an equipment failure had left them steering by hand and one rower down at all times .
after their return , the women laughed about which film stars could play them in any movie .
benaddi , 51 , and butters , 45 , joked that they wanted renee zellwegger and kate winslet to play them but said they would have to master a yorkshire accent first .
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