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Film · Disney · 2009

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Rating: 73
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73Worth an evening.

Keep it. A marriage told in ten minutes, and an old man who still has a duty to the living child.

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The review

The opening marriage is one of the few popular stretches of this century that tells the truth about a life: work, a miscarriage, a shared chair, a death. Everything after is in danger of being a cartoon chase, and some of it is. What saves it is that Carl's duty migrates. The promise to a dead wife is real, and it is not a permission to abandon a living boy who followed him because no one else would pin the badge.

Watch it as a house. Do not talk over the first ten minutes. After, ask who in your life you are faithful to in a way that has made you useless to the people still in the room. Carl's correction is available to anyone with a porch.

Journal

Keep Up in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Charlotte's Web

79 instead of 73

Charlotte's Web is still a animation film, and it scores 79 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: A small life is worth a season of labor, and the death is not hidden from the child.

The eight

7
Industry
A balloon man, a construction job he loses, a house he maintains. Work is a life, not a montage only.
10
Household
The marriage is the film. Ellie dies, and the house is grief. Russell is the child the grief has to make room for.
5
Piety
A promise treated as sacred. Wilderness as wonder. No church, and the vow still binds.
8
Courage
He goes on, old, ridiculous, and then he goes back for the boy.
4
Republic
Almost no town. A scout badge is the civic leftover, and it matters.
7
Temperance
Adventure is the temptation. The film puts it down in favor of the porch.
8
Truth
The adventure book was full because the marriage was the adventure. He has to read that.
9
Stewardship
He hands the boy a badge and a presence. The house lands. The dead are honored by caring for the living.

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Film · Columbia · 1961

A Raisin in the Sun

73Worth an evening.

Worth an evening. The check is not the prize. A house, and the man the son is going to be, are.

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The review

A father dies and the insurance money arrives in an apartment that is too small for the people in it. The son wants to invest in a liquor store and become someone the check can make him. The mother wants a house. The sister wants a school. The daughter-in-law wants the marriage to survive the son's idea of himself. A man from the neighborhood they are moving into offers to pay them not to come. The offer is the country's sentence, and the film does not blur the man's politeness into innocence.

This is one of the few pictures of the decade I would clear a weeknight for without a hedge. Watch it as a family argument before you watch it as a document. Ask what the son thought the money was for, and what his mother knew it was for. The answers are a stature and a house. The film is on the side of the house, and it is right. Older children can sit through it. The yelling is the sound of people who are not done with each other.

Journal

Keep A Raisin in the Sun in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

It's a Wonderful Life

85 instead of 73

It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is piety: Prayer is not a joke here.