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Iron Jawed Angels   2004             TV, 123 min. Genre: Drama Director: Katja von Garnier   Cast: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Anjelica Huston, Margo Martindale, Molly Parker, Lois Smith, Patrick Dempsey, Laura Fraser, Vera Farmiga, Brooke Smith, Adilah Barnes, Bob Gunton, Julia Ormond, Carrie Snodgress   Women's suffrage is the theme of this story set in the early part of the 20th century when American feminist Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and social reformer Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) left the mainstream effort and formed a more radical wing fighting for women's right to vote. The title comes from Alice's fight against being force fed while on a hunger strike after being jailed with her suffragettes when they picketed the White House. While she showed courage, the real courage was that of the suffragettes as a whole whose efforts resulted in the ratification of the 19th Constitutional Amendment on July 26, 1920, giving women the right to vote. Cast Hilary Swank Alice Paul Frances O'Connor Lucy Burns Anjelica Huston Carrie Chapman Catt Margo Martindale Harriot Blatch Molly Parker Emily Leighton Lois Smith Reverend Anna Shaw Patrick Dempsey Ben Weissman Laura Fraser Doris Stevens Vera Farmiga Ruza Wenclawska Brooke Smith Mabel Vernon Adilah Barnes Ida Wells-Barnett Bob Gunton President Woodrow Wilson Julia Ormond Inez Millholland Carrie Snodgress Mrs. Paul