Hardtack anyone?

Many, many, many apologies for my missing a posting for the Friday before last. I beg that your forgiveness will extend to me further-as I'm surely going to be sporadic with some of these reviews.

For the Friday before last, Courtney and I "held on to our horses" long enough to staple our butts to the-ever weakening-couch springs. Once the drinks were sitting within reach, we clicked the DVD player's remote to find our miasma sights.

Last Friday's movie spun and clicked, then flashed the living room with white light as the introduction screen read:

Presented in a documentary format with stock black ans white footage of Mr. Ford's production line and pictures of the times, we are transported back to the 1920's. It is in this time that we find our cast starting their plights in different places and with their own difficult times we follow them to a singular passage. While our story's specters move about in their own separated "emotional deaths", the storyline finds them drifting into a homogeneous state that is unavoidable. In doing such, they begin to breath life back onto one another and slough off the "waking death's" that they've created for them all.

I thoroughly enjoyed this great family movie from the opening credits. The film presents a warm hold as we are lulled by the narration of David McCullough's voice. McCullough's readings seem to add a sense of believability and ground the audience into the era since he narrates many of the PBS documentaries filmed by Ken Burns. It's in this state that we are able to delve deeper into the times and the turmoil that helped to create a sense of hope during such desperate times. Though there are different stories on the convergence, the director seems to find the correct balance of apathetic scenes so that the viewers can see the relevance and the similarities that all the characters have in common. The end result yields a film that inspires with; hope, forgiveness, understanding, and heart.

A feel good movie that is sure to become a family classic if your unit loves Secretariat and even Balto.

I must give this a solid 6 out of 10 lucky horse shoes.