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Lake of Fire
Directed by
Tony Kaye
2006
2h 32m
Not Rated
Documentary
8.2
94%
91%
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A graphic documentary on both sides of the abortion debate.
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Cast of Lake of Fire
Noam Chomsky
Himself
Flip Benham
Himself
Bill Baird
Himself
Lake of Fire Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
No one will have an easy time of it with Lake of Fire, a work of profound anguish centered on the abortion rights debate.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
It's the arguments on both sides that make this long, gripping film such a vital contribution to the national conversation about abortion.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
A 2 1/2 -hour documentary on abortion may sound like a hard sell, but the depth and scope of Tony Kaye's grueling Lake of Fire nonetheless justifies feeling like you've just taken a long, blistering soak in one.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
There's a madness to Lake Of Fire, a two-and-a-half hour documentary about abortion in America, that goes hand-in-glove with its staggering achievement.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
At 152 minutes, his film doesn't seem long, because at every moment something absorbing, disturbing, depressing or infuriating is happening.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Viewer opinions about life and death provoked by Lake of Fire are not likely to flip, but they sure will get shaken.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Wherever you stand on the volatile issue of abortion, Tony Kaye's exhaustive documentary could dislodge your certainties with a broad survey of opinion from opposite extremes and explicit depictions of medical procedures.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
[The] film does nothing to advance the debate but does a great deal to show us what's at stake.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
One lesson of Lake of Fire is the galvanizing power of the visual image. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes pictures are not enough.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Provides gruesome, incontrovertible images to complement its deliberations about morality.
NPR.org
Bob Mondello
When the focus narrows to the personal, the film becomes undeniably powerful in its specifics.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
You may not leave the theater having switched sides, but you'll probably respect the other side more, and that in itself would be a victory for human life.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Lake of Fire doesn't tell you what to decide, it just gives you as much information as possible to make the choice yourself.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Lake of Fire does something with the volatile subject of abortion that neutral observers and even political partisans can appreciate: It offers a wide representation of perspectives and opinions.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Highly compelling, if overlong and overwrought.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
[A] passionate meditation on the fiery issue.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
This sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film [is] more important than ever.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A provocatively beautiful movie on the hottest hot-button issue in American life: a woman's right to an abortion.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Lake wants to break through decades of encrusted rhetoric to make us think again. With one slow reveal of Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. 'Jane Roe,' the movie upends all you assumed about this subject.
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Handsomely filmed on silvery 35mm and high-definition by Kaye himself, the shrewdly edited pic balances a full spectrum of views from all sides of the abortion debate without obviously taking a position itself.
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