Joy. Hope. Loss, Love, Life Happens... Here.

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Lauren McQueen, Michelle Dockery, Gwilym Lee, David Fynn, Ophelia Lovibond, Nicholas Pinnock, Tony Ward, Jemima Rooper, Joel Oulette, Daniel Betts

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ - near perfect

"It's just that I put things off, and I kept putting them off. And I would say, "Oh, we'll do it next year." And then that next year would come, and I'd say, "Oh, next year, next year." And... I don't want to do that anymore." – Margaret

Why watch this? Here is a place, a plot of land in Pennsylvania, where we live through its many evolutions.

Plot Summary: Imagine a camcorder set up on a single spot. Start filming in, say, 30,000 B. C., and take us to current day.  After some serious editing, this spot will have generated quite a collection of tales. There will be multiple tenants: dinosaurs, deer, native peoples, colonials, inventors, returning soldiers, new families, all with their time accounted for; their stories told.

Dad's Preview: This excellent film will impact the viewer more if that person has a little age on them. At this writing, I am 62, and by the end, I am a weepy mess. The creative team here is Team Gump, including director Zemeckis, and actors Wright and Hanks. It's both technically unique (all the interchanging boxes, fading in and out of time segments), and poignantly acted. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and predict that this film will become a time-honored family classic. 

TriStar Pictures, Miramax, ImageMovers; Sony Pictures Releasing