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 use IMDB.com for a lot of my movie info.”
- I too, use IMDB.com to sample other users views on a film before I go see it.
I was not aware of this particular massacre so I sampled a number of sites which described the atrocity as well as the history of events leading up to it. It seems the history of murders of Mormons back east which drove them to seek refuge in Utah might account for the paranoia of the more extreme members of the Church and, from what I read, it seems the background of the massacre has been well documented and the leader of the Mormon group which carried out the killings was tried and hanged for his leadership role.
This seems to give the lie to the movie directors claim that there is a big cover up about the events surrounding the massacre. If the movie was an honest depiction of this tragedy, it might be worth viewing, but the directors depiction of it as a cover up suggests to me that he has an agenda and I’m not interested in sitting through a phony propaganda film - with a “love story” tacked on.