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Released
2012 · FILM

Won't Back Down

If you can't beat the system... change it

Directed by
Runtime
121 min
Drama

Synopsis

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts come from different social and economic backgrounds, but they share a common goal: to improve their community's failing school and secure a better future for their children. Determined not to be deterred by any challenges, the two women confront a bureaucratic system entrenched in traditional practices and work to revitalize a faculty that has lost its enthusiasm for teaching.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kristina BodenShot by Roman OsinScored by Marcelo ZarvosDesigned by Rusty Smith

Box Office

2012 · Box office

Grossed $5.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$5.3M

Worldwide gross$5.3M

Opening week (7-day): $3.5M

Peak 2,515 theaters

Also known as

  • Um Klassen besserde
  • De leurs propres ailesfr
  • Una scuola per Maliait

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