An epic film on abortion in America from TONY KAYE, the director of American History X
“MONUMENTAL!” – Jim Hoberman, Village Voice
 UNMISSABLE! EASILY THE DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR. STAGGERING. Surely a definitive statement on the subject. The film represents an enormous act of social conscience, spanning from the historical to the heartbreakingly personal. Eye-opening new interviews - one with 'Jane Roe,' now an evangelical convert - reveal an investigatory spirit worthy of the best journalism.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY
“Forget SICKO. Sure to raise a conversational ruckus.”
– Time Out NY
“A thorough (and thoroughly devastating) look at the state of abortion rights in America. Tony Kaye’s definitive documentary. Provocative and unsettling, you must see it – and fight about it.”
– Time Out NY
“Fascinating... Shot primarily in sumptuous, often disquietly beautiful 35-millimeter film, LAKE OF FIRE doesn’t look like most American documentaries...It’s clear from all the time he spent on this project and from the different voices he’s gathered that he was genuinely interested in making a serious work, one that explores its subject
with far more depth and breadth than the usual run-and-gun documentaries. In the main, he has succeeded…
a documentary that vividly delineates how religious-fundamentalist terrorists take root in a country, slide around
the law and gain legitimacy (martyrdom), and how those who profess to love God can justify murder.”
– Manhola Dargis, The New York Times
“This sprawling, scary, nearly unbearable film (is) more important than ever.” – David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“Riveting.” – Kyle Smith, New York Post
“Tony Kaye’s profound and direct exploration… (a). courageous, excessive, and powerfully unresolved piece of work. There are no ironic musical cues, no celebrity cachet no gimmicks, and no easy answers. LAKE OF FIRE… feels like an Errol Morris documentary fueled by drugs, firearms, and hallucinations of Jesus. An incredibly valuable act of filmmaking. Mr. Kaye insists on doing things that network news divisions are too frightened to even attempt, now that they’ve all been sold out to corporate profit margins and the shallow glimmer of infotainment.”
– Steve Dollar, The New York Sun
“Delves into the ongoing ground war in the abortion issue from the perspective of advocates on both sides
of the battlefield…. Kaye, of course, is no stranger to controversy. A highly regarded commercial and video director, he is probably best known for his very public battle with New Line Cinema over the editing of his
first feature, the 1998 neo-Nazi morality tale, AMERICAN HISTORY X.”
– Stephen Mooallem, Interview
SMART, VISUALLY APPEALING, AND CONSISTENTLY ENGAGING, it finds fresh ways of addressing a debate
that is, thanks to new state laws and changes in the Supreme Court, once again becoming unavoidable.”
– John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
“Kaye has achieved the nearly inconceivable: a balanced distillation of the abortion debate.
Compels you
to re-evaluate exactly where you stand.”
– Lisa Rosman, Flavorpill
“Lucid, even-keeled, and free from authorial hysterics. Stark, beautiful shades-of-gray cinematography.
A tapestry of tense conflict and ethical conundrums. Cemented by a shrewdly crafted final chapter that focuses
on a single woman’s experience at a clinic. A cogent, profound portrait of abortion.”
– Nick Schager, Slant
“AN EPIC DOCUMENTARY! Kaye spent a whopping 15 years shooting both pro-lifers and pro-choicers
all over the country. Full of top-notch sound bites and not just from extremists on both sides. Noam Chomsky
and Alan Dershowitz are among the most articulate. Powerful.”
– Anna Bean, Bust
Fifteen years in the making, this epic documentary stands as the definitive work on the perennially controversial issue of abortion. Filming exclusively in black-and-white, director Tony Kaye (AMERICAN HISTORY X) probes the complexities of abortion by exploring a range of moral and philosophical positions, from pro-choice supporters Noam Chomsky and
Frances Kissling (president of Catholics for a Free Choice) to pro-life defenders such as Nat Hentoff and the movement’s more militant leaders – Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, as well as zealots who have murdered doctors who perform abortions. Whatever your position on abortion, this film will challenge your preconceived notions of right and
wrong.
One of the most contentious issues in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade legalized the practice in 1973, abortion is once again on the front burner, the subject of a hotly debated recent Supreme Court decision – Gonzalez v. Carhart, which upheld the Partial Abortion Ban Act of 2003 by a vote of 5-4.
USA • 2007 • 152 Minutes •
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