Spinning Into Butter
Promotional film poster
Directed by	Mark Brokaw
Written by	Rebecca Gilman Doug Atchison
Produced by	Roger Howe Sarah Jessica Parker Ryan Howe Norman Twain Daniel Hank
Starring	Sarah Jessica Parker Mykelti Williamson Miranda Richardson Beau Bridges
Distributed by	Screen Media Films
Release dates	August 20, 2007 (2007-08-20) (Montreal World Cinema Festival) March 2009 (2009-03) (United States)
Country	United States
Language	English

Spinning Into Butter is a 2007 drama film written by Rebecca Gilman and Doug Atchison and loosely based on Gilman's play of the same name. It was directed by first-time director Mark Brokaw and produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, who also stars in the film. Spinning Into Butter was sold for distribution Cannes Film Market on May 17, 2007 and opened in the U.S. in March, 2009. The film concerns political correctness and racial identity.

Premise

When a New England liberal arts college experiences a hate crime against one of its few black students, the school's dean of students (Parker) must respond publicly to the incident while privately confronting her own latent racism and prejudice.

Cast

• Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Daniels
• Miranda Richardson as Catherine Kenney
• Beau Bridges as Burton Strauss
• Paul James as Simon Brick
• Mykelti Williamson as Aaron Carmicheal
• Victor Rasuk as Patrick Chibas
• Betsy Beutler as Lee

Reception

As of March 2018, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 16% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 32 reviews with an average score of 3.6/10.^[1] The site's consensus of reviews was:

"Both leaden and stilted, Spinning Into Butter is an unsubtle drama with stagy direction and lackluster dialogue."