Posts tagged kids
Just Go With It – Movie Trailer
Feb 16th
In Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
“Get Low” Get Down to Business
Aug 24th
“Get Down to Business”
GET LOW is a wonderful little film starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray that will have you chuckling throughout and wiping away a tear at the end.
It takes place in the 1930s and is based on a true event in which a local recluse wanted to throw a funeral party for himself while he was still alive so he could hear what people had to say about him.
Duvall plays Felix Bush in an outstanding performance that could easily win him an Academy Award nomination in 2011 for Best Actor.
Bush is a local legend who has lived alone in his house out in the woods for 40 years, which causes the kids in town to gather up their courage and go out to throw rocks through a window.
Whenever Bush harnesses his mule to his wagon and goes into town, it causes a sensation, one that doesn’t always end well.
One day Bush goes into town to see the local preacher in his church; he pulls out a wad of money and says to the preacher, “About time for me to get low.”
When the preacher asks what he means by “get low,” Bush explains, “Down to business.”
However, when Bush tells the preacher what he wants, the preacher turns him down.
On the other hand, business has been bad at the funeral home, and when the funeral director, Frank Quinn, played by Murray, hears about Bush’s desire and especially about his wad of money, Quinn is eager to do business with the recluse.
However, Bush has more in mind than just a funeral party and hearing what everyone has to say about him. Bush has a secret that he wants to reveal, and he also wants to sell $5 tickets for a raffle, the winner to get Bush’s house on 300 acres of uncut timber when he does die.
Well, money makes people do funny things, and everything doesn’t go as planned, to say the least.
Spacek plays Mattie, a widow, and as Bush puts it, he once “had a go” with Mattie, but she also figures prominently in Bush’s secret and why he has been a recluse for 40 years.
GET LOW gets down to business as an excellent film that I admired for its story, the acting, and its rewarding conclusion.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“The Kids Are All Right” Joy Is in the Journey
Jul 29th
“Joy Is in the Journey”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT is a 2010 comedy about an unconventional family and not to be confused with the 1979 documentary about the rock band The Who, which has a different spelling in its title anyway.
This very good and laugh-out-loud film stars Julianne Moore as Jules, Annette Bening as Nic, and Mark Ruffalo as Paul, and their growing relationships with each other get very complicated, to say the least.
You see, Jules and Nic are lesbians who have been happy together for a very long time. In fact, more than 18 years ago they decided to have a family, and they bought sperm from a sperm bank, with which one of them conceived and gave birth to a daughter and the other gave birth to a son, both from the same sperm donor.
Nic is a doctor and is the more–shall we say–“organized” one in the family, and she keeps pressuring the daughter, Joni, who is 18 and recently finished high school, to write her thank-you notes.
Jules is the free spirit in the family, has recently started her own landscape-design business, and as Nic tells her, “If it was up to you, our kids wouldn’t even write thank-you notes.”
Their son, Laser, is 15, and he convinces his sister Joni to contact the sperm bank and track down their biological father, who is Paul, who donated his sperm between 1991 and 1993 when he was 19.
Paul has an organic co-op farm and a restaurant, and he agrees to meet with Joni and Laser. Afterwards, Joni tells Laser that she thinks that Paul is weird, just because he donated sperm, but as Paul later explains, he donated sperm because he thought it would be more fun than donating blood.
The kids tell their moms about meeting Paul, and Nic insists that they aren’t to see him again until she and Jules meet him.
Paul is invited to dinner at their house so that they all can become acquainted, the women recognize their kids’ facial expressions in Paul’s own expressions, but then what was already a complicated relationship becomes even more complicated when Paul hires Jules to landscape the backyard of his house.
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT is a wonderful film, and its joy lies more in the journey than in its destination.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”