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A Christmas Dance Reunion 2021
Part of me would have been fine if the whole movie had been Lucy's mom laughing her laugh and the Christmas dancers dancing their dances.
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The Chosen 1981
A film based on one of my all-time favorite books.
Although politics are a passionate part of the story, I don't like it for the politics. (You know, sometimes I almost hate to use the word, for its connotations. It can be easy to minimize or brush off a complex and crucial human issue by saying it's "just politics.")
Anyhow. I like this story for the way it portrays how there are differences within groups, behind the broad labels. "I…
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Return to Mayberry 1986
Admittedly, my rating of this made-for-TV movie is based on how much I enjoyed it, with little regard for objectivity.
Despite the story's few inconsistencies with The Andy Griffith Show (I've watched all eight seasons, many of the episodes two or three times) and its spinoff, Mayberry R.F.D. (which I've read about), and also despite how I'm sure others would find it slow and anything but spectacular, for me it was pure, nostalgic, comedic, heartwarming bliss, a little bittersweet around…
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