kc5hii Reviews

Five Days from Home (1978)

Good Old Fashioned Plot. You can stand up and cheer.

[7/10 · 9 May 2005]

This movie was filmed close to my home town, so I was eager to see friends and acquaintances who made it to the big screen.

I saw the film in College Station Texas while attending fire school. Then caught it again on TV a few years later.

It's a great movie with timeless themes. I can't understand why it hasn't been released on DVD or at least video.

George Peppard was one of my favorite actors and he must have been a good sport to shoot the film in his wife's (at the time) home town.

One of my favorite scenes is when the lead goes into a Los Angles Bar and the interior is Springhill's own "Friendly Bar." A place that most kids from my hometown went to have their first beer.

I hope they release this to the home market some day.

Finding Forrester (2000)

This is what movies are for.

[9/10 · 27 January 2001]

My wife and I loved this movie. The writing was good and the performances were great.

One of our favorite scenes was the "BMW" encounter where Jamal tries to put the Yuppie at ease about his car. This scene was one of many that fought racial stereo typing in this movie.

Overall, this movie gave us an entertaining, pleasant, evening.

That's what we go to movies for.

James & Annette