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A Place for Annie (1994)
Love
This is one of the most beautiful and heartfelt movies I have ever seen. Sissy Spacek (Susan) is a treasured gem of an acting talent and Mary-Louise Parker (Linda) has such a haunting beauty with her acting, both are truly stunning. Truly, all the acting in this movie was spot on and fantastic.
The beginning that acknowledges how too many children who are born with disease, birth defects, disability are dumped in overcrowded hospitals that are understaffed and ill suited and are basically brought there to wait for death was so unbelievably heartbreaking.
Sissy Spacek really does have a way to engage the audience with the passion that she brings to her performances.
I like how the movie acknowledged how the system can be flawed and I love how Susan found a way around the system by means of sacrifice and love. The part when Linda told them they gave her what it felt like to be a family and the moment when she gave the letter to the baby...just wow.
There are so many moments that are wrought with such love, sacrifice and courage. I will never forget this movie, it's so beautiful.
Nanny's Nightmare (2017)
Waste of my time
I can't believe I just wasted that much of my life on this much of a terrible movie. The plot of this movie is so stupid. Why didn't the aunt get child services involved after her sister dumped boiling water on her niece? For that matter, it was in the medical records so when the mom took her to the hospital for burns I'm pretty sure that whenever it comes to minors/serious injury that child services will do an investigation.
Back to the story... Why did the guy (don't remember his name/who cares) marry this lady (aunt) in the first place? Apparently she was a stripper and it's not like she got pregnant or anything but still they got married and he acts like he doesn't love her. He fully acknowledges that she has a drug and alcohol problem but does nothing about it nor does he seem to care about her at all. Yet there is a scene when they have passionate love making but yet he treats her like he doesn't care about her, so weird. He has anger and resentment that they're having to take care of his wife's niece but he has little to no involvement with the little girl anyway. His acting stinks as well.
Anyway, so I get how maybe the step dad left the gate open so the hillbilly mom was able to drive up to the house but was the house also unlocked because the mom had no problem, that we could see, entering the house. You would think that people who are in this situation where they're trying to keep the crazy mom from finding the daughter, on top of the fact that they're wealthy, that these people would have an alarm system, right? Wrong.
So the mother of the child who's on parole and awaiting a court date to find out she'll be tried for the murder of her husband has no problem killing another person so it's quite probable that she did commited the previous murder. Now she's going to be a convict on the run for two murders and the first place she thinks about going is to her aunt and husband's beach house because the daughter suggested it?......ummm, how stupid is this lady? Once they find out that the daughter was gone they're going to look around and see if anything was missing AND they would have noticed their beach house key missing. Duh.
One of the things I hate the most in movies is when the victims get the upper hand on the attacker but don't completely subdue the attacker before running off. When they have the mom on the ground in the beach house they could have tied her up they could have knocked her out to unconsciousness, if you wanted to get creepy they could even have killed her there but what do they do? They leave the gun with the mom and go out the back door and instead of running to the left to or right where there were other houses they run straight toward the ocean.... I'm sorry but do they have the ability to turn into fish or are they just hoping that the coast guard happens to be right there? This is probably one of the worst examples in a movie I've seen of lack of common sense/survival instincts. So let's get to the end ultimately the aunt dies by being shot by her sister and Summer ends up stabbing the mother. So here we have both are dead and both of these deaths are witnessed by the little girl. Fast forward to the end and since Summer is pregnant we can assume that even if she was already pregnant at the time we're talking about maybe 5 to 8 months in the future because the little girl looks exactly the same and hasn't aged at all. She's perfectly happy skipping around/smiling and I'm sorry but I find that hard to believe that after that much trauma she would be that unburdened and happy. Maybe they got her a therapist but especially since the little girl is already bipolar on top of all the trauma of seeing her mother try to kill them all plus the aunt and mother die...idk it just feels unbelievably ridiculous.
The music was so over the top and unbearable it was funny. The acting was pretty darn bad, except for maybe the aunt the little girl's acting was so-so. This movie just felt incredibly dumb and I'm upset that I wasted my time.
Blood, Sweat and Cheer (2023)
Pleasantly surprised
I really just wanted something fun and different to watch and I got it. The fact that the mom could in no way pass off as a teenager but everyone involved has no choice but to believe it is hilarious. The whole movie was made by those bangs. NO ONE would ever believe that was real hair and yet no one in the high school said a thing. The mom's temper tantrums were LOL and at the same time disturbing. Her sister is beyond annoying, who just goes into their relatives' house without first calling/knocking?! Rude. This movie is so ridiculously beyond being believable but that's the point, success!!
Nowhereland (2016)
Didn't expect to love this but
This was pretty raw take on a harsh reality of those who are living a life like this. It was sick and disturbing to see how the mother doesn't value her daughter's worth and feels justified and even proud to coach and introduce her to this kind of lifestyle. The boyfriend was sweet but he too was so lost himself to even begin to know how to survive in the world, much less take care of her. There was so much going on in this movie, again, a lot of ugliness, hate and people who treat others with unkindness and don't care how it is affecting that person. The ending is so sad and had me crying but if it had to end with some realistic consequences then it was a fitting ending. I really didn't know what to expect going into this movie or how deep it would get but this is one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.
Instakiller (2018)
Not worth watching
I got through 25 minutes before I couldn't take it any longer. The acting is terrible and feels forced to the point of cringe. I'm sick of how bratty and disrespectful these teens are to the parents and then the parents respond with a smile? This is what happens when you don't teach your children, when the are young, about respect nor do parents discipline (no I don't mean hitting) them for bad behavior and then the kid ends up growing up and being disrespectful to you...ahhhh yeah, ya think? I hated the part where the daughter is shutting down her Internet account and it shows all her followers avidly watching in real time like they worship her...so creepy. This new lifestyle of exposing your personal life on the Internet for fame, money or in the case of this movie both those plus admittance to a fashion school. I find that appalling that a college should value that in a student to the point of acceptance or rejection. The stalker of the movie is EXTREMELY obvious to the point that it's laughable. I'm so glad I listened to myself and checked out reviews, after such low ratings, I skipped ahead and of course was right about the who the stalker is, smh.