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Eat the Peach (1986)
A great little movie
I saw this on its release in 1986 and really enjoyed. Nothing spectacular just a film on the struggle of 2 men who have been made redundant and decide to do something different. I was a little bit reminded of Eat the Peach when I watched Take Shelter. A bit of stretch maybe but it did remind me. Yesterday I saw footage from 1979 on the real life men who the film was based on and who actually built a Wall of Death in Granard County Longford. It reminded me of the film and I have ordered a copy. I hope it is as good as I remember from all those years ago
Don't expect an Oscar winner but it is hard not to watch and enjoy
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Very disappointing
I don't go for feel good movies so it is not the bleakness and the fact that all the characters except the 2 youngest children are unlikeable that puts me off. It's the storyline is very poor. It's a very slow story but I can live with that if the story is good. This film seems to believe that if you want to display reality in Missouri then it must be as bleak as possible and have all the characters as unlikeable. But the main problem is there just isn't a good story here. The subject matter reminds me of Frozen River but it is a much superior film. Again its bleak and set in rural America with some unlikeable character with the main character a woman who has to smuggle to survive. It proves being bleak and realistic can be a good movie but this tone doesn't make it good or "realistic"