Shelf mold (on a reportedly troubled production completed in 2005) encrusts this misshapen adaptation of Spinning Into Butter, and Rebecca Gilman's 1999 play about racism and toxic political correctness at a small Vermont college is lumpy enough as it is. A painfully miscast Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style, as a do-gooding dean of students who must face her own prejudices on a campus where all her white colleagues apparently are hypocrites and fools. Williamson plays a local black journalist — all too obviously a minority position in Vermont. D
Bitter Butter: Sarah Jessica Parker is miscast in Spinning Into Butter
EW's GRADE
DDetails Rated: R; Length: 91 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Sarah Jessica Parker and Miranda Richardson; Distributor: Screen Media Films
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