Reviews

One evening my daughter and I were at home - I was cleaning in another room, but after a time, I realized the program my daughter was watching had no words. So I went into the living room and promptly was entranced. It was our first silent film (thanks A&E for showing it) - we were hooked. I didn't find myself treating it like a film with subtitles...reading and missing the scenes - instead it was appropriately sub'd prior to a scene, then the silent film told the story all on it's own. It was a great plot of an orphan (back then, that was a social climbing status killer) who broke the ranks and found herself. She had a bit of fun along the way (the scene in the garden when she was young was hilarious!) and eased past the social-highlife land mines. A great family movie for sure.

This movie is what began my like of Christopher Walken, and sadly a realization that I should have already been watching more of Natalie Wood. There was no dramatic wardrobe (can you say lab coats?), no love scenes, but a dedicated plot involving work-aholic PhDs (one chain-smoked - something you probably couldn't put in a movie today) who were chasing the aged old plot (but with a fresh twist) of the Project Management being told "don't turn my G__D__ project over (to the military)" - cloak/dagger and fairly intense exploration into cataloging the afterlife. In the midst, some docs get a grip and find out what's important after all...If you like pondering the Here-After, this is no documentary, but it is definitely something to think about...