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raiders, toy soldiers, trading places, last crusade etc ..
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The Holly and the Ivy
Robin and Marion
Watership Down (voice)
Saint Jack
A Room With a View
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Bangkok Hilton
The Holly and the Ivy is so bad that even Elliott couldn't save it.
To each his own, of course. It worked beautifully for me.
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My wife and I watched it this Christmas, and we both were underwhelmed. We both had the same problem: the premise of the story is that the daughter had a secret that would anger the father to the point of tearing the family apart, so she carries this burden for years. When finally forced to tell the old man, he shrugs and basically says so what?
And there's the sad & tragic irony of it. The daughter had lived with her self-imposed burden for all those years, only to learn that it was all unnecessary, and that she had wasted much of her life because of that false idea that she'd believed & embraced. More deeply, that she thought she knew her father, but in fact, only knew her image of him, not the actual man himself. Lack of understanding, lack of communication, lack of trust & openness, all of which she couldn't (or wouldn't) see.
At least, that's how it struck me.
I guess.
It's just that all the self-therapy the family went through wasn't terribly interesting, at least not to us. It was kind of like The Breakfast Club in a way but not as much fun or engaging. Maybe it just wasn't for us.
How we react can often depend on when in our lives a movie is first seen, and what state of mind we're in then. I was at a point in my life when the movie really hit home for me; at another time, it might not have done so, or at least not as much.
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