A recently divorced woman with one son moves to a small town, expecting to make a living as a horse trainer. She befriends the local drugstore owner, a widower.
The interesting thing about this movie is how it is built on a spartan succession of completely predictable incidents, and yet must resort to surprises as key plot-movers; thus you have two incidents of unexpected visitors, one surprise party, two surprise game winnings, etc. These characters have little to do with real people, of course, and that becomes clear early on when the main male character, a drugstore owner in a very small town, is depicted as concerned with reforestation and nuclear disarmament. These fads are gone, of course, and today his fictive concerns would be global warming and xenophobia, or some such stuff. Small towns are depicted stereotypically, but not too unkindly. On a side note, I found the resemblance between the actors playing mother and son amazing.
Rating: 50
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment