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This movie is set in an unspecified state in the deep south (filmed in Athens, Georgia) in 1963 and 1964. It includes the Civil Rights movement and President Johnson's Equal Rights push. What was being ignored, at least at first, was the issue of women's rights. The attitude was mostly, things are working well, let's not change things.

While this particular movie is fiction it certainly was inspired by real people and real events. I was graduating from high school and starting college in Louisiana then, my wife was about to finish middle school in New Orleans, we remember the times well.

This is a good movie of a significant subject, entertaining but also with a meaningful theme. My wife and I watched it streaming on Amazom Prime. The two key characters are British actress Anna Friel, doing an authentic accent as Southerner Grace Gordon, motivated to find something better after her father died and she found it hard to do business as a woman. And Kelsey Grammer as the US Congressman who was sweet on Grace and was to have a voice in including rights of women in the law.

Fantastic acting, well produced film, excellent perspective. Appreciate you telling history from this vantage point. Must see!

This is missing an open goal. Movies on racism in the south aren't a hard begining. But this movie takes that basic premise and slowly goes backwards with a slow boring story. Thankfully the civil rights movement didn't follow the same trajectory . A terrible waste of time and talent.

I have heard about CHARMING THE HEARTS OF MEN through all of 2021 because it has Sean Astin (an actor I follow and usually like) in the cast but actually hadn't a chance of seeing it until last January, and didn't have that many expectations for it. When I saw it last January I simply liked it, nothing more.

The movie is set in 1964 during the Civil Rights movement when Grace Gordon (Anna Friel) returns in her home town in the South and discovers that while her options are limited, discrimination towards black people is plentiful and with the help of a congressman (Kelsey Grammer) she ends up inspiring historic legislation that allows opportunities and protections that were never given to women.

While the plot was a bit hard to understand and it was saved by the last 30 minutes, the acting is generally good and the settings nice. It was also nice seeing the Southern black people's lifestyle, with their singing and dancing moments and the like. Not certainly a must see but just a time passer and nothing more (well, not all movies are meant to be masterpieces, right?)

Well written - fine acting. Inspiring for young women. Not raunchy - found myself wishing it were longer. The dressing, the cars everything made it feel like the 1960's. Bravo!