Sometimes simpler is better. Sometimes small is big. Sometimes understated makes a loud statement. These are the things I remember about this "small" movie seen several years ago.
The storyline is simple. The production is small, and the acting is understated. But through the thousands of movies I have viewed over the last 30 years, for some reason this movie rises to the top.
Geraldine Page's performance was so convincing that her character seemed to be a person known intimately. Maybe it's just a sentimental nostalgic quality that entices me; but someone must agree since Page's performance was acknowledged with a well-deserved Emmy.
Too bad this movie isn't shown every holiday season, but then society has become too "big" and too "complicated", hasn't it?
The storyline is simple. The production is small, and the acting is understated. But through the thousands of movies I have viewed over the last 30 years, for some reason this movie rises to the top.
Geraldine Page's performance was so convincing that her character seemed to be a person known intimately. Maybe it's just a sentimental nostalgic quality that entices me; but someone must agree since Page's performance was acknowledged with a well-deserved Emmy.
Too bad this movie isn't shown every holiday season, but then society has become too "big" and too "complicated", hasn't it?