Radium Girls

Very disappointed with the film. It is a great story made into bad film. Poor directing, bad script and wrong cinematography as well as some very poor acting.

I enjoyed the movie and I think it was nicely acted and told a good story. But here are some things that bugged me. I was a little annoyed about all the period clips. There were just too many of them for comfort. It took away valuable time for storytelling. I thought the courtroom scenes were too short and unrealistic. The lawyer for the girls didn't seem to be putting up much of a defense. The real-life lawyer probably did a better job. The politics and love story were overdone and a bit gratuitous. Did factories have no security in those days? Employees could sneak in at midnight and have a party and steal the paint willy-nilly and former employees could just march in whenver they felt like it? Finally, I have this huge pet peeve about the way the girls did the painting. The boss told them to dip, lick, paint. The actual order was lick (or lip), dip, paint. Why would you dip your brush into the paint and then lick it off? The lick was to get a point on the brush and then put paint on that fine point and then paint the numbers. It was such a small thing, but it bugged me. Finally, I wish they had told the story of the actual radium girls and made it historically accurate, rather than fictionalized. In spite of all this, I mostly enjoyed the movie and found it very touching. At least it gets people thinking about the radium girls.

An interesting story, but the production value was all that good.

Yet another Hollywood made America is bad film. I was excited to watch this film it seemed right up my alley, but the film takes a tragic story and doesn't do it justice. Its all over the place with random overly political moments that have no point in being in the movie and draw from the plot.

Very interesting story. Not a great movie. Glad I watched it, but wished it had better writing and acting.

Really a must see! I found myself thinking about the history and evolution of women's struggle for safer working conditions, because of this film. The Radium Girls were successful in holding the big corporation responsible for the death of so many dial painters, but the fight for better workplace conditions for US women continues today. We see this in the form of equal pay demands and zero-tolerance for workplace sexual harassment, for example. This movie is a powerful reminder of the importance of speaking truth to power, organizing for social impact, and the strength of everyday women!

Read the book. I am tired of Hollywood turning every story into promotion of communism as the savior and racism as the underlying theme of every story. This book was not about any of that. Read the book.

Bad. Bad & just really bad. The acting was way below par - no engaging characters & felt like a hokey Lifetime movie investigating the Radium Girls. It had a great storyline, but it fell flat on its face due to too much mixing of actual reels from the 1920s with the actors in the movie. It came off as fake & gimmicky. Save your time & just read Wikipedia to get the basis on what happened to the Radium Girls & what they were all about versus spending almost 2 hours of your life watching horrible actors & bad movie directing.

Horrible movie that is bateltybased in reality! If based on book they should have dropped the whole stupid Communism subplot. Actually they should hat just cut that out altogether! So disappointed!

This movie made my heart hurt so much. Hearing the story makes my heart just... ache. I want everyone to see this movie, because the story of the radium girls is heart wrenching. I can't explain the emotions I am feeling for these women right now, it is an absolute must watch.