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Release Date: Nov 10, 2006
Running Time: 99 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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"Shut Up & Sing" travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group's lead singer in 2003. The film follows the lives and careers of the Dixie Chicks over a period of three years during which they were under political attack and received death threats, while continuing to live their lives, have children, and of course make music. The film ultimately presents who the Dixie Chicks are as women, public figures, and musicians.
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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing has more emotion and excitement than anything Hollywood has made up all year. Story In 2003, in the prime of their country music careers, the Dixie Chicks embarked on a world tour. At a concert in London, in between songs, in an impromptu moment on the eve of the Iraq war, Natalie Maines said she was ashamed that President Bush was from her home state of Texas. The crowd went wild and the concert went on. Back home, CNN picked up the London news reports. The… 
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October 27, 2006
Life in Bush America gets a blunt, honest telling in this documentary that makes you want to stand up and cheer without ever begging for tears or glib sympathy. Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the chart-topping Dixie Chicks, set off a shit storm at the start of the Iraq War in 2003 when she told a London audience, "We're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." Maines joined Martie Maguire and Emily Robison -- the two sisters who founded the Texas band -- in a media…
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