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Free the Nipple

2014 · 1h 30m · UNRATED Comedy, Drama
Directed by Lina Esco

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Overview

An army of passionate women launch a revolution to "Free the Nipple" and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national publicity stunts, invade New York City to protest the backwards censorship laws in the USA.

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18%
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Rotten

Yes, breasts are a beautiful, natural, baby-nourishing thing, and they've been bizarrely shamed and oversexualized in American culture-but writer-director Lina Esco's amateurish debut is not the film to set them free.

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

"Free the Nipple" is a bright, scrappy satire inspired by a real-life movement to nationally legalize a woman's right to go topless in public - just like a man can.

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

"Free the Nipple" is first and foremost the cinematic equivalent of a billboard.

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Rotten

The movie is so tone deaf, and travels so far from its original feminist ideals, that it's painful to watch.

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh

It's too rare for movies to depict women working together as friends to effect political change, and this one makes it seem righteous, loud, and fun as a rock concert.

Diana Clarke, Village Voice

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