Erin Brockovich
Rating: B/2 – Is it ever appropriate to sacrifice your family (not just a day here or there, but large chunks of the day, months at a time, perhaps years) in order to achieve a sense of self accomplishment that they feel they need in the work force?
The Informant!
Rating: B/3 – The Informant! did a good job of showing the consequences of lying and trying to cover up the lies as they become discovered. If you try to cover things up, things don’t get better or disappear. A right action doesn’t always make-up for a wrong action, especially if that right action is by no means a restitution of the wrong doing.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Synopsis Rocky Graziano is nothing but trouble for his family and the community, and works his way into several prisons and work camps. His future becomes brighter when he realizes (with the help of a few mentors) that he has good potential to fight professionally and legally. He straightens up his life, gets married, has [...]
The Blind Side
Synopsis A Christian lady (Sandra Bullock) takes in a troubled youth and with the help of her husband (Tim McGraw) and children she instills in the boy courage to finish school and start a new life, full of hope. Entertainment Value – A This was a very well done movie. I went into the theater [...]
Frost/Nixon
Synopsis This film covered the preparation and the airing of the historical 4-day interview David Frost conducted with former president Richard Nixon. Some wanted the interview to be the trial Nixon never received (due to Ford’s pardon); others simply wanted the experience of interviewing one of the most controversial men in history. Entertainment Value I’m [...]
Braveheart
Rating: 4 William Wallace is a great example of what one needs to do to stand up against evil. Through his character we learn that we can never afford to compromise with evil. If Wallace were to have permitted the Scottish leaders to negotiate with England, the Scots would have still been subject to England [...]
Gandhi
Rating: 5 We watched this movie a while ago and fortunately took notes during and right after viewing it. This was a great movie! Though many of Gandhi’s teachings and beliefs were good, I’m not sure I agree 100% with everything, but I’ll let you decide where you stand. Plenty of lessons worth remembering were [...]
Hotel Rwanda
Rating: 5 This movie is a huge eye opener to how small we sometimes think the world is, and how small it isn’t. So many things happen in so many other places than where we live. We hear about atrocities occurring in other countries on T.V. or read about them on the internet, but they [...]