Movie · Netflix · 1999

Stuart Little

An adoption that sticks. The chase is extra. The belonging is the point.

Stuart Little is a small story about a family that means the adoption. The boat race is what children remember, and the race is fine, and the scene that matters is the one where they will not surrender him. A child can watch it. If your house has an adoption in it or near it, this is one of the few films that will not make a joke of that fact.

The eight

Industry
4/10
The father has a household to keep. Stuart has to find a way to be useful in it.
Household
8/10
They chose him, and they do not give him back when it would be easier.
Piety
3/10
Kindness is the law of the house.
Courage
6/10
He risks himself for the family that claimed him.
Republic
4/10
A single house, not a city.
Temperance
6/10
Gentle, with a villain who is mean and then done.
Truth
6/10
Adoption is treated as real belonging, not as a temporary plot.
Stewardship
7/10
What they hand him is a name and a room.

Live historicallyTalk about the room they gave him, not about the race.

Movie · Prime Video · 1989

When Harry Met Sally

Grown people, talking. The sex is a subject, not a stunt. The ending believes in a vow.

This is a conversation movie, which is why it has lasted. Harry and Sally are specific, difficult, and not teenagers. The film's famous scene is a joke about performance, and it is franker than a family hour can use. The spine, if you can keep it in view, is that a feeling is not a life until two people agree to keep showing up after the feeling has been embarrassed.

Adults. A good one to watch with a spouse and then walk. Not for the children in the house.

The eight

Industry
6/10
They have jobs and a city. The work is not the subject, and it is not a joke.
Household
7/10
The argument ends in a marriage. Friendship is the long apprenticeship.
Piety
3/10
New Year's is the liturgy. That is as close as they get.
Courage
6/10
He says the true thing in public, late, at a cost to his pride.
Republic
5/10
New York friends, a city of diners. Not a town, but not a vacuum.
Temperance
4/10
They sleep with other people and the film does not pretend it is free. It also spends a famous scene on appetite.
Truth
7/10
The question of the film is whether you can say what you mean to the person you actually want.
Stewardship
6/10
The interviews with old couples are the film admitting that the point is to last.

Live historicallySay the true thing to your spouse before the year requires a speech.