Sunday, November 18, 2012

PRACTICAL MAGIC

Stockard Channing, Nicole
Kidman, Samdra Bullock
1998

Family with rich history, specifically the family story of magic has the unhappy spell of never being fulfilled in love.

Two young nieces come to live with spinster aunts who distribute spells become the guardian of the young girls when both of their parents die.

(Watched Nov 18, 2012)

PIECES OF APRIL

Katie Holms, Patricia Carlson (2003)
MGM and United Artists
Katie Holmes plays April, a colorful, struggling waitress who decides to invite her estranged family to her NYC apartment for Thanksgiving.

Touching drama of the quirky dynamics of family and how love, hate and chaos can be different components of the same constant.

(Watched for the first on Nov 18, 2012, four days before Thanksgiving.)

Comedy-Drama 80 min

Monday, October 29, 2012

TOUCHBACK (PG-13)

Great movie about one mans opportunity to alter a future that robbed him of a chance to make it in football on the college level. A freak accident in the last play of his high school football career leaves him with a leg injury that changes the course of his life. If he had the opportunity to change that play, would he?