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Rating:  - Insipiring
My daughter has been making fairy houses ever since we watched this movie. So sweet and nice. She didnt like the man with the scared face, but she just looked away.
Rating: - Enchanting, very well done.
I love this movie. All the actors do a great job and the special effects are delightful, leaving you feeling lighter. I first learned of this story while studying the history of photography in college. The story is true enough, except, well- you know. BUT the healing impact it had on society after the horrors of WWI is certainly understandable and wonderful. ENJOY!
Rating: - Well made, excellent plot, for young and old alike
Although based in somewhat of a loose fashion upon an incident in the early 20th Century, the movie uses a good storyline and limited special effects to bring a universal tale of hope, faith, friendship, and trusting and believing in others. Movies, as well as books, that delve with past history have a way of having "artistic license" created in order to make the story more palatable, create a better storyline, or simply to sell more to an audience; this loose interpretation on that 1917 incident is no different. Where it differs from many other reinterpretation of facts is that it presents the story in a postive light, giving quality lessons not only for the younger audiences, but to remind the older viewers of, perhaps, some of the lessons we may have learned when we were young but have forgotten (or perhaps never learned). The few negative comments I have seen from this movie have their expectations in a fast moving, philisophically empty, visually charged piece of entertainment that moves with special effects rather than good dialogue and subliminal lessons of life. I would highly recommend this to younger audiences as quality entertainment with important messages, and to older audiences, who would be receptive to reaching out for, perhaps, a childhood experience lost, or to renew hope or faith.
What I find interesting is that many of us have experiences we cannot explain, and discount, from childhood into adulthood, and we tend to rationalize them away, but many times, as adults, cannot explain nor discount when things happen that defy such rationalization or explanation.
Some of the more pleasant aspects of this movie was incorporating Houdini into the movie, using his dialogue to bring a message of integrity and hope concering the issues of the faeries, of the incorporated friendship of the two young lasses, of the doubts of the two adults that turn to belief, of the hopes instilled by a simple honest act without desire of profit or fame, of faith and immovable belief in something both ridiculed and dismissed, of a father's long journey home, and, of course, of growing up, and perhaps losing that innocence in the world and in all things. And an uplifting moment when the doubting, scheming reporter gets his "dues" when confronted with the supernatural when trying to sabotage the honest beliefs of the two young ladies.
As a final note, I found the "ending" to be very uplifting and, actually, quite a suprise. A pleasant one at that!
Rating: - Not just for children!
This is truly an enchanting movie. I have watched this with my Grandson many times. I enjoy it every time we watch it. It will take you back to when you were and young child. A time when atleast I believed in faries. Maybe I never stopped believing! A winner to share with you children and grand children!
Rating: - A Great Movie!
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is beautifully acted. The little girls are charming & the other actors do a wonderful job as well. The fact that it is a true story make it even more memorable!
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