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So, you're basically -- your review basically says they are kind of beating you over the head with political content in this movie and doing a bad job of it. can you unpack a little bit? what is the political mess annual and why so flawed in how they presented it. >> you are the political experts. i don't know why the right wing insists on beating up the teacher union year after year. i should maybe come out and say my sister-in-law is a union school teacher in milwaukee so i would be in big trouble if i had written anything different about this movie. but for is some reason and i think the re...

Voluntarily giving up their union benefits taking over a school and for practical purposes selling it to a private company that will run it from here on out. so, you know, i'm not against charter schools in principle. i think there are a lot of things to talk about there. but when you're talking about this agenda, something very specific is at stake. >> so andrew, this -- the box office numbers are in for the weekend and this thing actually tanked this weekend. it came in tenth place. it made was it $2.7 million. the budget for this i guess was $20 million. so this was -- this is not a success...

Trojan horse film aspect that's troubling here. i think the mo every isn't very good. -- movie isn't very good. even the lifetime channel level that this is aiming for is not entertaining. they seem like to be stuck in this move owe and would like to figure out how to get out of it. >> i objected to this movie without having seen it just based on someone's assertion that it was feel good. i reject that. i also reject this salon cronyism but i'll play along for a minute. when movies try overtly to make a conservative political argument they generally fail. i look at an american carole which was...

Themed film -- >> it has to be a good piece of art. >> right. the problem a lot of times talking about is exactly, and i agree with almost everything just said. there are times when the politics of a film essentially doesn't matter or it can communicate in a lot of different levels, they have to concentrate on craft. most of the time these conservative and christian themed films are just not well made. >> andrew, didn't take any alcoholic birjs or lapses in judgment to get you here today i hope from salon.com we both work there. thanks for joining us. the new list of schools that aren't just...