Reviews

So we've got some good and great actors onboard who do their best with the awful script they've been handed. The story is all over the place, and add to that some truly awful direction. I just wish the story would have unfolded in a more cohesive way, because, after all, the twist is more or less a shocker.

The Walton's Homecoming Christmas TV film, which aired 50 years ago this month, is my all-time favorite Holiday movie. Patricia Neal plays Olivia, all original SEVEN children are there, and Ellen Corby originates her role as Grandma Walton. It is both heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once thanks to the brilliance of Neal and Richard Thomas as Johnboy. We are taken back to an era when life was tough, but you got through it. This new film doesn't hold a candle to the original. Please just watch the 1971 version and skip this one all together.

The acting is so bad, in yet another horrible Bigfoot movie, you will laugh...for all the wrong reasons. Not an ounce of creepy atmosphere, and of course, the creature itself will also induce laughter. It gets three stars for the genuine audacity of its fifth grade dialogue.

Carrie Watts (Oscar winning Geraldine Page) has been cooped up in a 2 room Houston apartment with her meek son and her outspoken daughter-in-law for twenty years. Getting on in her years, and equipped with a bad heart, her only wish is to see her home on the southern coast of Texas (Bountiful) before she dies. She has often attempted to go there, but always seems to get caught before she can even get on the bus. But one glorious day, she does manage to escape the confines of the apartment and her critical daughter-in-law, and thus, her adventure does begin. Mrs. Watts encounters a delightful young lady (Rebecca de Mornay)and relates her life story, sings hymns to her heart's content, and finally, through sheer will and perseverance, does make it to Bountiful, where she discovers that her one time home is now a timeworn shell. Here, she rediscovers her past, and all of the emotions she experiences and shares with us are to be treasured for generations to come. Geraldine Page is so masterful and in every frame of this monumental film, that we tend to forget that she is even acting. Her character could be our grandmother, our mother, and we come to love this eccentric character as though she were family. One of the most charming movies ever made!