The Fight
An inside look at the legal battles that lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union are facing during the Trump administration.
(PG-13, 96 min.)
Showtimes
Saturday, August 22, 2020
4:00 PM
At this defining moment in American history, The Fight follows a scrappy team of heroic ACLU lawyers in an electrifying battle over abortion rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights.
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Director(s): Eli B. Despres, Josh Kriegman
Genre: Documentary
"The Fight is a fantastic documentary highlighting the real heroes out there: the overworked attornies of the ACLU."
— Lorry Kikta, Film Threat
"Snappily edited, with a visual style reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh's modular design, The Fight tells viewers of a certain political perspective what they want to hear."
— Roxana Hadadi, AV Club
"Wisely focusing on four key cases, The Fight is a worthy attempt to document the ACLU’s seemingly endless struggle to challenge the many constitutional violations of the Trump administration."
— David Hughes, Empire
"[The filmmakers] have made a worthwhile record of the civil rights advocates combating the country’s backslide into stripping away rights for voters, immigrants, pregnant women and the LGBTQ community."
— Amy Nicholson, Variety
"In this engrossing and ultimately inspiring examination of ideals in action, the team behind The Fight wind up illustrating a cardinal rule of nonfiction filmmaking: When it comes to humanizing even the loftiest principles, a documentary lives or dies by its principals."
— Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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