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It’s now on Kanopy, the free streaming service via libraries.
So great to see it! I watched it when I was as young as Dorothy with my dad who was a sax player in one of those jazz bands of the 40s-50s.
On the contrary, I didn’t think he portrayed a blind person at all. He looks directly at people talking to him. His eyes are looking and seeing. If I hadn’t read the synopsis of the film, I would not have known the boy was supposed to be blind.
I caught that mention of Gregory Peck too. This movie had lots of similarities with Roman Holiday, one of the most charming movies ever.
This time there was “double trouble” with 2 princesses! It’s very entertaining. It’s now included with Prime video. Highly recommend it, especially for fans of The Crown.
It’s available on Kanopy, if your library has that online movie service.
Great movie that reminds me of Vertigo with the San Francisco scenes.
Barely! There is a least “one scene where two women speak to each other and the main topic of conversation isn’t [directly] a man.”
But I think the Dune/Bechdel Test question should be asked of Ketanji Jackson for the best opinion.
I witnessed my partner's mother through stages of Alzheimer's from when she was aware that she could no longer follow conversations or recognize ordinary objects to forgetting people she knew. Then to violent outbursts from a typically sweet woman. Then to loss of daily functions far beyond what this movie depicted. When she was institutionalized, it was equally sad to see the people who were initially her friends/co-inhabitants of the nursing home as they declined on the same path. "The Father" brilliantly took us into the mindset of someone who must feel they're being gaslighted as their reality crumbles.
My first thought, a few minutes into the movie: It’s like “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.”
April 8, 1990 Twin Peaks premiered. I see tons of comparison with this series.
Why is it filmed entirely in darkness? I get the depression thing but viewers need to see the movie. Michelle Pfieffer’s acting is great. Wish I could have seen it.
Yeah, it’s an old trope but women like me enjoy seeing our favorite actresses. People who don’t like it shouldn’t go. Like I don’t go to the shoot-em, blow-em up movies, done and redone with the same old men actors. To each their own.
None for me either. The songs have nothing to do with the era of the story or the theme of Barnum’s Greatest Show. The songs are weak MTV videos. Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin would cringe.
You should see it. I was turned off by the 50 Shades thing too, but the great cast here make it funny, not icky. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
Witty, fun chic flick. Lots of double entendres that had everyone laughing, but clever not crude. Great cast. I loved it.
I don’t think the people on this thread are eye-rolling. I think, like me, they went to the movie expecting a film like Moonlight or Call Me By My Name. But this was a light-weight teen movie. And that is great! When I was in high school, I would’ve been delighted by this movie. Back then, we had depressing, gay movies like The Children’s Hour or Cruising. We’ve come a long way to have a positive, mainstream movie about a teenager coming out.