Miss Virginia: You Go Girl

Uzo Aduba is Virginia and Niles Fitch is her son, James

Who knew? Certainly not the Movie Slut. She thought Miss Virginia (on Netflix) was an inspiring take on a real-life story about a single mom who fights the system and gets her son, and other kids, into schools where they would actually get an education rather than beaten up on the playground.

That was before her eyes were opened. Virginia Waldon Ford is a real mom living in Washington D.C., who fought the system to get her son a scholarship to a private school. On the surface, it seems like a triple F flick: A formidable female fight for her child. And wins. And if you watch the movie in that vein, it works.

Too bad this movie doesn't tell the full story. Even worse, it misrepresents one of the Civil Rights Movement's heroes: Eleonor Holmes Norton, who's portrayed as an elitist legislator who kowtows to private interests.

 "Unforgivable," says the MS.

 Watch at your own risk.