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and beautiful. The film is at times amusing, at others sad, and educational as well. The King tells Anna once "I was always believing English women slept in hats!" The film relates, as well, a tale of unfulfilled love between the King and Anna. Though there is some violence during the Burmese raids on Siam, as well as a few other strong scenes, middle school children and up should be able to see this with their parents. Naomi dubbed it fabulous!
• Angela's Ashes: Rated R, 146 minutes, 1999. Based on the hugely popular memoir by Frank McCourt, starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle. A coming of age story in depression era Limerick, Ireland, where the key word is poverty. Its opening notes that while all childhoods are miserable, there are none so bad as the "poor, miserable, Irish Catholic childhood."
Mother Angela is rock strong, while Dad is a drunk and wastrel. Whenever he gets a job, which is seldom, he usually immediately drinks the proceeds, leaving Frank and his three brothers hungry. Then comes another baby, who dies, two of Frank's brothers die, then there’s another couple of babies. Angela finally denies Dad his "marital rights," saying that "as long as there are no more children eternal damnation sounds just fine." Many of the scenes from the poor catholic school attended by Frank and his siblings are quite amusing, as are several scenes during confession. Frank discovers reading and Shakespeare while in the hospital with typhoid and this fuels his desire to come to America.
Despite the grinding poverty, hunger, death and disease, there is redeeming value to this film, but it is probably suitable only for high school and adults. It is a pretty faithful adaptation of McCourt's book. Excellent acting by the entire cast, said Herb.
• Woman Wanted: 110 minutes, 1998-99, rated R, with Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Moriarity. Hunter (Emma) comes to the household of a widower estranged from his son (Sutherland), who still lives in the house, to be a cook, maid, etc. Its a strange tale (and you wonder why a woman so young, pretty and
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