Belated Reviews: Frozen River, Away We Go and Beeswax
Film: Frozen River
Synopsis: It's about a woman whose husband up and leaves the family without warning. She's desperate, because they had enough for a final payment on a modular home, and he's ran off with the money. So she has only a few days to pull together the funds, and she can't earn the amount needed on her salary. So she has to resort to some desperate means to get the money in time, taking a huge risk that could not only put herself in danger, but also her kids as well.
My review: This is a powerful film and very compelling.
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Film: Away We Go
My review: It's a cute film, though somewhat over the top at times. I'd recommend it, but I wouldn't rank it at the top of the list of comedies.
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Film: Beeswax
My review: Boring. The production values were very amateurish - lower than low budget - and the writer/director decided to throw away the script during filming. So it's a film without a plot.
The characters are only slightly interesting. There's a lot of shoulder shrugging and mumbling through it (it's a part of a new genre of films coming out of Harvard University called "Mumblecore", and it shows).
Imagine a bunch of 20-somethings who are in a reality show that doesn't have anyone screaming at each other, getting married, getting rich or kicking someone off an island
Synopsis: It's about a woman whose husband up and leaves the family without warning. She's desperate, because they had enough for a final payment on a modular home, and he's ran off with the money. So she has only a few days to pull together the funds, and she can't earn the amount needed on her salary. So she has to resort to some desperate means to get the money in time, taking a huge risk that could not only put herself in danger, but also her kids as well.
My review: This is a powerful film and very compelling.
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Film: Away We Go
My review: It's a cute film, though somewhat over the top at times. I'd recommend it, but I wouldn't rank it at the top of the list of comedies.
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Film: Beeswax
My review: Boring. The production values were very amateurish - lower than low budget - and the writer/director decided to throw away the script during filming. So it's a film without a plot.
The characters are only slightly interesting. There's a lot of shoulder shrugging and mumbling through it (it's a part of a new genre of films coming out of Harvard University called "Mumblecore", and it shows).
Imagine a bunch of 20-somethings who are in a reality show that doesn't have anyone screaming at each other, getting married, getting rich or kicking someone off an island
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