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Gone By Dawn

Name: Gone By Dawn
Director: Shaun Donnelly
Released: 2016
Duration: 75 min

Representation Score

4.3/10

Fair

2016

Director

Shaun Donnelly

Runtime

75 minutes

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Gone By Dawn successfully challenges traditional gender roles by placing women in positions of tactical control and physical dominance. However, the film lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ identities and provides no data on racial or ethnic diversity. This absence limits its broader impact. The film primarily explores women's ability to drive the story and moral ambiguity.

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Category Breakdown

Does Gone By Dawn have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film highlights female solidarity and shared experiences. However, it does not explicitly depict queer identities or same-sex relationships.

How does Gone By Dawn portray gender?

Excellent

The narrative challenges traditional gender roles by emphasizing women's ability to act. Women evolve from passive victims to active protagonists who use their intellect to outmaneuver a male antagonist.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Gone By Dawn?

Minimal

No specific details are provided about the racial or ethnic backgrounds of the cast, making it impossible to assess the film's racial diversity.

How does Gone By Dawn represent religion and culture?

Good

The story explores subjective morality and vigilante justice. It focuses on identity-based survival and the dismantling of traditional power structures.

Does Gone By Dawn include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no information available regarding the inclusion of characters with physical, sensory, or neurodivergent disabilities.

Present on Screen

Challenges traditional gender roles and masculine dominance.
Highlights women's ability to drive the story and strategic plotting.
Explores complex themes of subjective morality and vigilante justice.

Limited or Absent

Does not explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities or queer dynamics.
Provides no verifiable information about racial or ethnic diversity.
Does not include characters with physical, sensory, or neurodivergent disabilities.

Official Synopsis

When Alana, a naïve stripper, is raped by her boss, Stag, and his drug dealer friend, she turns to her fellow dancers for help. Joined by the beautiful Roxy and seductive Crystal, they hatch a plan to kidnap Stag and force him to give them the combination to his safe. Using his own vices against him, they seduce and drug him. When he wakes he is cuffed in his office where three women he has wronged in different ways hold him captive. In what becomes a grim battle of wills, the girls use physical and mental torture to try to force the combination from him, needing the money to flee before he gets free and kills them all. But they quickly realize they're in over their heads as everything that can go wrong does. As the walls close in around them they have until dawn to get even, get the money and get gone.

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