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Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Last Brickmaker in America - 5 stars out of 5 stars


Maybe its corny,maybe its too family values but maybe because the world is going to hell in a hand basket it might just be time to reflect and rediscover values that made this country great at one time and perhaps once again hopefully and that is the value of this film.The story is simples,even dull but if you don't see part of what YOUR life was,or wished it could be or even tries to be today,than,with respect,your lying to yourself.  Perhaps your moving to fast and have lost sight of"the forest for the trees"THAT my friends is the simple yet so often missed  or just forgotten message of a truly rare family film as relevant today as in the year it was released 2001,and running only 85 minutes.The cast is headed by legendary Sidney Poitier as a 76 year old brickmaker whose wife of 60 years has recently died,and a few other fine character actors along with a relative unknown Cody Newton,as a 13 year old troubled teen, weave a story that won't work for everyone but just might let you see that damned forrest that those trees keep getting in the way of if your willing to give it a chance and open those big baby blues of yours.
Trailer URL follows the picture and a brief IMDB summary below.Family film at its finest.

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi938384665/

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