I loved this movie very much. Sam Neill as a good-hearted prickly grouch--he always delivers great acting, along with his wife or female partner (not sure). The kid was really great, too. Be prepared to laugh a lot and have your heart warmed as Sam and the kid find their way through their adventures in the outback as well as finding themselves psychologically. The movie is full of outlandish yet completely believable surprises. I haven't laughed this much since Les Visiteurs.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(1986)
promotes and extols the virtues of unkindness
13 March 2017
The movie was excruciatingly painful to watch as the teenagers went out of their way to be unkind and inconsiderate to adults. This is not okay, and it should not be promoted as a desirable way to behave toward others. These are very fine actors in this movie and I seriously doubt they would ever think to behave this way toward others.
China Beach
(1988–1991)
I have never forgotten this series
25 May 2015
I'm writing this review 25 years after it left the air. I have never forgotten it. It is superb television. The ensemble cast is stellar. It was co-written by John Sacret Young and William Dodson "Bill" Broyles, Jr. who served as a marine in Vietnam. While watching it, it made me intensely feel what it was like to be there; I could feel how every moment and every individual counts. I could also feel how relationships are exquisite and intense when you daily face life or death. Conversely, their lives were also portrayed after the war when they returned home where they were no longer making a big difference in the world; there I could feel just how empty, inane, and futile their existence felt in comparison to their lives at China Beach.
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