SPOILER ALERT!!!
Hilary Swank, that is. I an not fond of her. Mostly because I think she looks like an ugly man--which may or may not be related to that movie she did about the cross dressing female who was beat to death. So, it doesn't matter how glamorous she is dressed on the red carpet, I see a little ugly boy. And, yes... anything is possible.
Now I have a new reason. As a reader of this blog, you surely know that loathe and dispise Hollywood's glorification and glamorization of the legal profession. Well, apparently Erin Brokovich wasn't good enough. We need another trailer trash slut taking on the machine when her brother is accused of murder. Fox Searchlight is picking up Swank to play a high school dropout, single mom who fights the good fight for her falsely accussed brother by going to law school in the movie "Betty Ann Waters".
Although this is allegedly a true story, I find it funny that anyone in prison who is innocent would be best served by his high school dropout sister going to go to law school. Just the idea of a law school grad helping to free an innocent man sans help is kind of funny to me.
Never forget this... when you get out of law school, you know how to do NOTHING. To use an anology, you know a bunch of theories of law, which are the bullets, but you've never been taught how to handle a gun, which is the procedure. So, I can't imagine how this woman, Betty Ann, fumbled and bumbled through appeals--and was successful. I actuallyu don't know if she was or not, because I don't want to spoil this movie for myself or anyone else. I will eat crow if this movie is good, but it's just falsely empowering. You can't typically take on huge important cases when you get out of school. So, watch the movie and enjoy it.. but take it with a grain of salt.