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Director Joshua Caldwell and scriptwriter Stephen Camelio tell a familiar story—that of a wounded veteran needing more than just physical healing—but with a different twist. The healing comes through fly fishing. And what for a while looks like will become a romance turns out to be something else. And amend that “a wounded veteran needing…healing”–there …
A money-strapped alcoholic woman in a New England town rekindles a romance with an old flame & amidst tragedy faces up to her problem.
The story of a disgraced man returning to his home town where he finds redemption for himself & a troubled boy when he becomes coach of the hs wrestling team.
Almost four years ago I wrote that Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken “tells but two thirds of Louis Zamperini’s story, with the last portion dealing with love and forgiveness reduced to a minute or so of a postscript on a black screen and photographs and a film clip of the real athlete.” You might recall that Zamperini …
What a delightful visual parable of reconciliation from director and screenwriter Gus Van Sant! Based on John Callahan’s autobiography of the same name, the title comes from one of the sardonic cartoons that made Callahan beloved and controversial. His story is both a recovery tale (the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are central) and …
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After Tammy is fired from her fast food restaurant job she reluctantly embarks on a trip to Niagra Falls with her grandmother & learns life lessons enroute.