A young American mother who has recently arrived in England drops her young child off for her first day of school, but when she goes to pick her up later, the child is nowhere to be found. Assisted by her protective brother and a stodgy police inspector, she keeps searching… but those close to the investigation begin to doubt that the child (who we never actually see in the opening sequence) ever actually existed.
This is quite good, an interesting…
My initial review covered this pretty well, but a couple of quick notes:
-I was oddly moved by the very brief, wordless scene with the Black woman who throws the ball back into play. It's only like ten seconds of a movie that's over two hours but it says so much, both in an obvious and less-than-obvious way, and it's just perfectly done and a huge acknowledgment of this whole other level of oppression that doesn't feel contrived.
-Dottie is…
Mel Gibson takes the last 15 minutes of Braveheart, strips it of all the character building and stretches into two hours, successfully winning the award for most self-righteous film ever made. There's even a scene that is almost exactly the same as the end of Braveheart, when Jesus makes eye contact with Satan walking in slow motion through the crowd as he is being tortured. Satan is even walking the same direction as Murron does in Braveheart!
Anyway, this film…
Mark Schultz is a wrestler who won gold at the 1984 Olympics, but he has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, Dave, also a gold medalist. When a mega-wealthy eccentric, John du Pont, offers the space and resources to train for the 1988 Olympics at his estate, Mark sees it as a possible chance to move out from his brother’s shadow. But John’s own alternative reality threatens to derail Mark’s plans.
This is notable because of the…
