I’m trying so hard to continue with my usual Friday posts forMovie Nights, and I finally found one! This is such a chick flick.That being stated, my husband loved this movie, too!
If you are in love with love and romance and attraction and if you are in love with the idea of hoping for love, this is a movie for you. Some people want and desire nothing more than to be loved. This is especially true, even when life derails you. Nothing means as much without people to share your life with. ( Climbing down from the soap box.)
Josh Brolin plays an inmate who, through various events occurring over the long Labor Day Weekend, ends up spending time with Kate Wislet’s character, who, before experiencing her long weekend with the inmate, was beaten down by life, and barely hanging on emotionally.
In a way, these characters are a lot of us. Life is hard. We may not be where we planned on being, we can all be frazzled and jaded and hurt. Needy. Vulnerable. I suppose this is why it’s easy to connect with the characters.
I’m not even going to talk about how easy it is to stare at Josh Brolin. His hair is gloriously sexy.
If you think the plot is unthinkable, I find it very realistic. I once lived on a secluded, 500 acre ranch for years and it was just outside Houston about an hour away. The Texas prison system has real estate just off the highway, in Huntsville so we all would pass by as we went on with our daily lives. The inmates would often be outside gardening in the fields right next to the roads. A married college girl who worked for me came into work one day and stated, ” I don’t know about ya’ll…but I kind of like the way those inmates look at me when I drive by! I sure wish my husband would look at me like that!” We all laughed.
Being around the prison system, you also hear the stories of guards who fall in love with inmates and divorce their spouses. Recently on the news, there was a big story about an inmate who had impregnated several different female guards on his block. Point being, people do meet ex convicts or inmates and get swept away.
This story is clean and decent, and is about two people needingeach other, and that’s always a good thing. Loved it!
(You can check out other Movie Night ideas in the thread here!)
-SDS
-May 17, 2014
