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If you google the movie’s web site, you will see that it has an Aug.24/07 release date. That is only one week away and yet rottentomatoes.com has not yet posted a single critics review of the movie.
However, there is a notation on the movie’s home page that says the the film is currently being screened for the consideration of, “potential distributors”. I take this to mean that the film may never be distributed in the theaters, being either too bad a movie or it is considered too politically motivated - given Romney’s presidential aspirations. I will venture a guess that it will quietly go directly into the video stores.

I think it will be shown in theaters, though not widely.

I use IMDB.com for a lot of my movie info. One feature it has is that you can rate a film. This film has been rated by quite a few people who have screened it, and a lot of preliminary user reviews have been written. Here are the applicable links, if you’re interested:

Movie page:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0473700/
Ratings:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0473700/ratings
User reviews:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0473700/usercomments

Generally speaking, it appears the Mormons gave it 1’s, the anti-Mormons gave it 10’s, and the thinking public gave it 5’s.

Personally, I’ve found that any movie on IMDB that doesn’t make a rating of 7 is not worth my time to watch. It appears that, solely from the perspective of the art of filmmaking, that audiences are already beginning to reject “September Dawn.”

What I did find interesting were the particularly polarized user reviews. Everything from “This was a POWERFUL cinematic experience!!!” to “One of the worst movies I have ever seen”

I take this to mean that the film may never be distributed in the theaters, being either too bad a movie or it is considered too politically motivated

Wish I could find the early review I saw again. It was a completely non-biased review that looked at the cinematography, acting, how the movie was adapted from real life accounts, etc etc. Left all the religion out of it.

Basically it came down to it being a really really poor movie that only fanatics on either side would watch, but still probably not enjoy because it was that poorly done.