Tag: movies
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Wanting and Waiting
I decided after listening to an actor interview to see The Life of Chuck but left the movie theater frustrated and confused. This movie uses reverse chronology to tell Chuck’s life story from losing his parents and unborn sister in a car crash as a young boy and later his grandparents who raised him to…
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No Doubt
I am increasingly, and sometimes uncomfortably, aware of how little I know. I actually expected the opposite. I assumed that I’d know more after reading and living more, and working longer as a professor. I’m not suggesting that I’ve lost knowledge. I cannot remember details and facts that I could once easily recall, but I…
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As Much As We Can Be
All Happy Families is an engaging account of a Chicago family that seems relatively unhappy but might actually be as much as can be expected, and relatively aware of that. Graham, a mostly failed writer and actor, is managing his childhood duplex purchased by his older, and more successful actor, brother Will, and Dana, a…