Reviews

Bad, bad, bad! This movie has horrible acting and a thin plot. Just watch it if you want to see bad fake sex. There is plenty of it.

I came across this one while "surfing." The only reason that it stayed on was to find out who some of the people were. The database didn't have the character names or I wouldn't have spent more than five minutes on this stinker. It was playing merely as background and that was enough to get the tiny plot!

Wow! Beautiful and intelligent women, beautiful food and touching stories that intertwine with some unexpected turns. I don't usually have the patience for sub-titled movies (I'm much less fond of dubbing), but this one really grabbed me. If only we could master more than a couple of languages and schools in the US would teach multiple languages like the European schools do, but I digress.

Three daughters and their widower father share the family home. One roof covers many separate lives. The mother has been dead for 16 years. The youngest is in school and is 20 years old. You really feel the middle daughter's pain as she tries to reconcile her desire for leaving home and finding love against her success at work. The oldest daughter, a teacher, too has trouble with love, since her "heart is still broken after nine years."

The father is also ill and his failing palate is not supporting his fantastic cooking skills. This first shows up in the Sunday night family dining ritual. He is a Master Chef in a huge restaurant with his brother Wen and he loves to cook lunches for a little girl that is the daughter of an old family friend. She is his virtual granddaughter, or is she? The food is as much of a character as any of the others. It looks so good that you wish that you could reach out for some of it.

This family has difficulty talking about what is really happening to them in their personal lives. They communicate only when they are eating during the family ritual. This family has many emotional hills to climb and we get to watch as they learn to open up with each other and grow together.

I would gladly watch this movie many times and appreciate getting to hear the language since it is sub-titled instead of dubbed. This film has broad appeal to many audiences and cultures.

The basic premise is "Can a fish out of water (the California surfer) fit in with the Cincinnati tough guy Hockey players." The Hockey players are dismayed by the surfers laid back and stay chilled attitude. They do everything they can to try to get him to fight with them. This is paralleled by his need to find something worth fighting for.

I was surfing the dial one day and happened upon this gem. I found it very entertaining and engrossing. The plot was mostly High School formulaic, but it was executed charmingly. The romance was at a pleasing level and contributed to the tension in the plot. Overall, I found the film very well balanced and the actors very attractive. It also ends up being enjoyable by many different age groups. While High School is a couple of decades behind me, the writing and action was indeed good enough to keep my attention.

While true that this movie isn't Academy Award material, it is very enjoyable and touchingly romantic. The scenery is breathtaking at times and the film flows well. It starts in a party atmosphere and becomes a romantic adventure story. It is a good cross between a "Chick Flick" and an adventure story. I have flown open cockpit biplanes and perhaps that makes the film even more enduring for me.

There is plenty of flying and small war skirmishes are smattered in with the search for a rich brat's father. She (Bess Armstrong as Eve Tozer) must find the father and get him to a British court before the deadline or she will lose all of her money. If the partner, Bentik, can have Bradley Tozer (Wilford Brimley) declared as dead in a British court then he gets the whole company; thus relieving Eve Tozer of the heaps of her fathers money. And it is about money that this girl lives for, or so it seems. She enlists the help of a derelict and decrepit old WW1 ace, Tom Selleck, who has the only two available airplanes to get her to her father in time. Assassins are employed by Bradley Tozers partner to keep him from being found adding more tension to the already danger filled trail.

While the romance angle is as predictable as it is in just about any film, the story does flow well and the scenery also helps to keep ones interest. Rent this one and settle down for some fun. I would rate this film as three out of four stars.

This is a great movie. It has drama and tension without being extreme or dependent on it. It has the interplay of people in a small town that have known each other all of their lives. There is a conflict between two men that is brought to the surface, and into the open, by the arrival of The Nephew from outside of the small town. Both old and new love stories happen here. I liked the ending and this has to be my favorite appearance of Pierce Brosnan. He is much more real in this film than any of the others that I've seen. This movie is dedicated to Chad Brady, I don't know why as it is the first name of the main character and the last name of Pierce Brosnans character.

I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys the real relationships of life. The give and take of actual life over what Hollywood and New York would like us to think of as true life. For me (being in the US) this is a Foreign Film, but only because of the filming location. The story is quite universal and not limited by the location.