Hey, Family
I don't know if you can get these in accessible DVDs, but I saw three good
movies on cable this weekend. One was "Catch Me If You Can", one was "For
Heaven's Sake", an oldie but really a good movie, and one of them was "Still
Breathing."
Most of you may have at least heard "Catch Me If You Can", it's the true
story of a 17-year-old boy who posed as an airplane pilot, a bank worker, a
doctor, a lawer and all kinds of other stuff and defrauded people out of
millions of dollars only to become such an expert in check fraud that he
designs the secure checks used all over the world today and is paid millions
of dollars to do it. A true story that proves that truth really is stranger
than fiction. And it also has a great cast with Leonardo Di Caprio (whom I
have a new respect for after watching this), Tom Hanks and Christopher
Walken (who is one of my favorite actors from "Dead Pool" and "Brainstorm").
"Still Breathing" is a very romantic story of a man who has the inherited
ability passed down from all the men in his family to have visions of the
woman he is destined to marry. Sounds hokey but is well done.
"Still Breathing" and "Catch Me If You Can" might have some questionable
language (the "F" word). The older one, from the 50s, "For Heaven's Sake",
doesn't of course.
"For Heaven's Sake" is a really sweet story of two angels who come to earth
to try to get a child angel to come home with them back to heaven. She has
picked out a married couple she wants to be her parents but they are so
selfish they won't have a child but concentrate on themselves and their
careers. And she refuses to give up on them and leave. There's also a
little boy angel who is in the same predicament who befriends the girl angel
as he waits for his own parents, his father too poor because he can't sell a
book idea to have a child, to bring him into the world. It also has a
beautifully haunting score by Alfred Newman, the same guy who did the music
for "Wuthering Heights", "The Greatest Story Other Told", "A Man Called
Peter", "The Robe", and many, many others.
I don't know if this site is accessible but here are links to descriptions
of each movie:
Catch Me If You Can: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/
Still Breathing: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120211/
For Heaven's Sake: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000055/
Paul
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